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Remarkable and historic photographs of people and events that particularly interested Augustus Rischgitz

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Lawn Tennis
1881: Two couples meet for a friendly game of lawn tennis. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Rischgitz Collection: Breakfast En Route

Breakfast En Route
circa 1850: Stagecoach passengers enjoying breakfast at a hotel. Original Artist: By J Pollard. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Courtly Dance
circa 1775: An eighteenth century couple dancing. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Gypsy Fiddlers
circa 1910: Four young, Hungarian, Romany violinists. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Winter Coat
1902: A gentlemans winter coat. Tailor & Cutter - pub. 1902 (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Military Doctor
circa 1880: A military doctor, with an ambulance cart in the background. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Carbiners Advance
circa 1844: An officer of the Carbiners, the 6th Dragoon Guards leading a charge of men. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Rischgitz Collection: Lancashire Regiment

Lancashire Regiment
circa 1850: Soldiers of the 30th East Lancashire foot regiment in bright red jackets. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Going To The Well
circa 1850: A young woman going to collect water from the well. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Distillation
20th May 1803: Double apparatus for distillation of spirits. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

At the Pump
circa 1800: Visitors to the town pump. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Musician Plays
circa 1870: A man playing the piano at home while his wife listens and sews. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Connaught Place
1840: Traffic on Connaught Place at the corner of Edgware Road, London. Original Artist: By Whitlock (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Letter Reader
circa 1860: A man reading a letter lying in a studio country scene. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 121 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Bicycle For Two
circa 1880: A double seated safety (or low) tricycle being ridden by a couple reading a book. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Furniture
Circa 1830: Furniture from the Sixteenth Century. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Rischgitz Collection: Visiting The Needy

Visiting The Needy
circa 1860: A wealthy villager brings fruit and a book to a woman nursing her sick child. Charity by T Brooks (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Challenge Cup
1840: Crowds watch from stands on the riverside as roeing temas make their way along the River Thames during the Henley Regatta Challenge Cup race. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Street Dress
A proud lady in Edwardian street dress, looks lively for this studio portrait. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Wind Organ
A monk works the bellows for a fourteenth century organist, circa 1335. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Hotel Kitchens
The chefs and staff in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Cecil. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Medieval Forge
Thirteenth century rustics at a blacksmiths forge, circa 1200. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Siblings
Mother and children in the parlour. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Tom And Maggie
Tom and Maggie overwhelmed by the flood in scene from George Eliots book, Mill-on the Floss. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Bloomers
Women in Bloomers, loose trousers gathered at the knee or ankle, a fashion started by American magazine editor Amelia Bloomer. It did not catch on but did re-appear as swimwear

Peace With France
Crowds gather outside the house of the French ambassador in Portman Square, London to celebrate the new peace between France and Britain following the Treaty of Amiens

Factory Boys
An illustration from the novel The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy by the English novelist Frances Trollope (1780 - 1863), the mother of Anthony Trollope

Brixton Charlie
Charles Rouse, the last of the Charlies, an early police force. His watch was on Brixton Road, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Union Street
Cotton mills on Union Street in Manchester. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Monoliths Journey
Cleopatras Needle wrapped in a specially built torpedo-shaped shell at the start of its journey. It was towed from Alexandria in Egypt, where it had stood for nearly 2, 000 years

London Gardens
The backyards of a row of terraced houses in a slum area of London. Over London by Rail by Gustave Dore (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Slum Children
Dudley Street in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) area of London. Original Artwork: By Gustav Dore. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Culloden Moor (aka Drummossie Moor)in Inverness looking towards the Moray Firth with British soldiers firing on fleeing and dying soldiers who are being tended by their women, April 1746

London Omnibus
Passengers travel between Paddington and the Bank aboard Shillibeers omnibus for a fare of one shilling. Guildhall Library (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Pickpocket
A pickpocket at work on an unsuspecting gentleman. Original Publication: Busbys Humorous Etchings - Introspection - Thomas Busby (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Rischgitz Collection: Marvel At Munchhausen

Marvel At Munchhausen
The magnificent Baron Munchhausen riding a canonball over an enemy camp. An illustration from Rudolf Erich Raspes book Baron Munchhausens Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia

No Rules
A group of boys playing an old-fashioned version of football. Original Artwork: Engraving by Webster (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

National Assembly
The interior of the French National Assembly building at the time of the French Revolution. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Subscription Room
Diners and cardplayers in the great subscription room at Brooks Club, St Jamess Street, London. Original Artwork: Engraving by Thomas Rowlandson (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Rischgitz Collection: Buying And Selling

Buying And Selling
1854: The London Stock Exchange. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Haydn Monument
circa 1900: The monument in Berlin to the German composer Franz Joseph Haydn. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

London Sweep
1849: A young chimney sweep dressed in rags and covered in soot. Original Publication: From London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew Original Publication

An Old Song
circa 1800: A woman plays the harpsichord for a gentleman admirer. Original Artist - Hennessy. Engraver - Jenkins (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Great Eastern
August 1865: The breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern. Original Publication: Illustrated London News

Great Eastern
September 1865: The laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern. Original Publication: Illustrated London News

The Tug Of War
December 1878: Little Katie and Johnny wrestle with a Christmas cracker. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Rischgitz Collection: Check Those Stripes

Check Those Stripes
circa 1895: Wearing a check knickerbocker suit with ribbed three-quarter socks and low-laced oxfords and holding a terrier pup a father sits arm-in -arm between his two daughters clad in stripes

Railway Opening
27th September 1825: The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the worlds first public railway. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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