Victorian Trivia from The Illustrated London News
Victorian ADVERTS
A typhus warning about using disinfectant 1864
Click the links below to view some interesting and amusing Victorian Adverts from the Illustrated London News
A combination of Fry's cocoa with Iceland Moss
Eiderdown petticoats
Jameson's Irish Whisky and Allsopps Beer 1864
Intoxicating effects of Absinthe and tobacco
Piesse and Lubins Hungary water
Piesse and Lubin's sweet scents - New Mown Hay and others
Astleys Amphitheatre 1872
A Digitorium musical instrument 1872
A new song by Arthur Sullivan (sir) 1872
Buy a share of a Vineyard 1854
The price of Coal 1854
Furs and Shakespeare 1847
Rook shooting with Air Canes 1847
Blondin bids farewell to England 1863
The first new Boys Own for sale 1863
Compass Barometer etc. the size of a half crown 1863
Lead in the water filters 1863
Steam cleaning bed feathers 1863
Victorian NEWS snippets
Dickens published part 6 of Our Mutual Friend 1864
Bottle in the River Cree , Newton Stewart 1864
Mole killer in Switzerland 1864
Saratoga Spring Water by G.A. Sala 1864
Population of South Australia 1864
The cricketing Graces 1872
Fined for using an envelope crest 1872
Mysterious footprints in the Snow in Devon 1855
Salmon, Seals and Strychnine 1856
Bolton antirepublican riot 1872
Bottle in a fish at Blackpool 1847
The Court and Haut Ton 1847
Dickens reading Xmas Carol 1847
Ether apparatus 1847
Phenomenal Hailstones at Headingley 1863
Distress in the North (cotton shortage) 1863
Lamb and Packet Ragged school meal 1863
39 Sioux indians to be hanged 1863
Aintree Elephant race 1863
is this the first Newspaper 1863
African Gastronomic delights 1863
CHESS
Chess Problem No 1069 - 1864
Chess Problem No. 1468 - 1872
Chess Problem No. 173 - 1847
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