Browse Items (162 total)

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  Doncaster Racecourse

  An engraving of a horse race at the Doncaster Racecourse.
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  Diary of Sarah Lindo Lyon

  Manuscript Diary
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  Depression and Business

  A graph depicting the correlation between mention of business and of anxiety and depression throughout Lyon's Diary (1826-39).
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  Cowes Harbour

  An image of the late eighteenth-century illustration of W, Cowes Harbour found in A Tour to the Isle of Wight by Charles Tomkins.
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  Cowes Castle

  An image of the late eighteenth-century illustration of Cowes Castle found in Charles Tomkin's book A Tour to the Isle of Wight.
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  Covent Garden Theatre

  Illustration depicting a performance onstage at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
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  Breathing a vein

  This etching depicts the practice of bloodletting, as a doctor bleeds his ill patient in order to cure him of an ailment.

• Bay of Biscay

  This is a sheet map of the Bay of Biscay and it shows the area where Lyon might have sailed.
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  Barbadoes

  This map, published in Thomas's New General Atlas (1817), outlines the island of Barbados.
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  Ballroom dancers

  An illustration of ballroom dancers for the Journal des Demoiselles; Edition Belge.
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  Backgammon

  This image depicts a board for backgammon, a game made popular in the nineteenth century.
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  Baby Naomi

  Naomi appears in the 2nd row, 3rd baby from the right held by the second nurse. The nurse is holding 2 babies. Naomi has black hair and is on the nurse's left arm. Photographed on Christmas Day 1935. She was born in the Salvation Army Hospital in the East End of London.
  
  
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  At the Marylebone Police Office on Wednesday, a Jew of the Name of Maurice Woolf, Was Brought up on a Warrant Charged with Having Assaulted Mr. Lee, Printed, of 98, Crawford-Street

  Maurice Woolf, a Jewish man, assaulted Mr. Lee when Lee accused Woolf's wife of stealing a sheet from his kitchen. Lee detailed that Woolf was occupying a portion of Lee's house and claimed to be working as a tailor. Lee then discovered that Woolf was part of a gang of thieves and approached Woolf about the missing sheet. These events were documented in an essay called The Man. A Rational Advocate.
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  Anxiety in Lyon's Diary

  A graph depicting the frequency and placement of Lyon's mentions of anxiety and depression throughout the course of the diary (1826-1839).
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  Almack's Assembly Rooms inside

  An image of the painting "A Ball at Almack's Assembly Rooms in London" by George Cruikshank.
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  Account of the fatal hurricane by which Barbados suffered in August 1831 : to which is prefixed a succinct narrative of the convulsions of the elements which at several times have visited and injured the West Indian Islands

  A digital reproduction of an image taken of “Account of the fatal hurricane by which barbados suffered in August 1831," a meteorological journal. It provides a brief account of Sir James Lyon’s character and reputation as he responds to the devastation of the hurricane.
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  Abbotsford in Scotland

  A digital image of a coloured chromolithograph in the 1880 book Country Seats by Morris. Sir Walter Scott was successful enough to purchase Abbostford, although it consumed a great deal of his time and funds. Abbotsford attracted tourism while Scott was in residence, and continues to do so today.
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  Abandoned

  This painting by Fritz von Uhde portrays a mourning woman with her head in her hands.
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  A.S. Lyon's 1826-39 Diary

  The diary is an unpublished manuscript copy that has been photographed and displayed on this site.
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  A.S. Lyon's 1823 Diary

  The original diary belongs to Annabel Foster-Davis. She has kindly given permission to publish a digital copy of the diary on The Lyon Archive.
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  A wedding of the middle 1800s

  A digital image of the engraving by J. B. Forrest.
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  A View of the Palace at Kew from the Lawn

  This 1763 engraving portrays Kew Palace and the gardens stretching beyond it.
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  A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, Containing Kensington Gardens in 1826.

  A topographical map of the United Kingdom, containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the small islands dependent.
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  A Splendid Spread

  This illustration by George Cruikshank parodies the inflatable crinoline dresses worn by women in the nineteenth-century in London. The woman portrayed here wears crinoline so immense that her server must transfer food to her on a long spoon.
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  A Couple and Two Children Sleeping on a London Bridge

  This dark illustration by Gustave Dore depicts a family sleeping on a bridge in London, with the masts of ships and the stars in view beyond.