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1801Diagram of a slave ship
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1807Shopping for fabric
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1807Wordsworth, 'Daffodils'
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1807Textiles from India
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1808Beethoven's sketches
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1810Exhibition of a rhino and zebra
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1815Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
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1815Battle of Waterloo letter
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1816Jane Austen, Persuasion
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1819Peterloo Massacre
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1822Cartoon of a street accident
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1822Shampooing Surgeon
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1827Description of London
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1829Execution of a 12 year old boy
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1829Diary entry on 'The Pillory'
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1830Invention of photography
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18321832 Reform Act
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1834Tolpuddle Martyrs
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1836Early Chartist meeting notes
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1837Dickens, Oliver Twist
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1838The People's Charter
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1839Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby
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1839Poster for Living Mermaid
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1840The Railways
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1840First postage stamp
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1840Coal mining
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1844Popular entertainments
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1844Engels: factory conditions
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1846Freak show: What is it?
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1847Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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1848The Communist Manifesto
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1849Chartist William Cuffay
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1851The Great Exhibition
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1851Sketch for the Crystal Palace
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1852Woman's magazine
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1852Poverty and the workhouse
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1855London Zoo
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1855Cookery for the poor
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1857Human Exhibition
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1857Mary Seacole
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1858Ship building
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1858Britain's Indian empire
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1859Nightingale, Notes on Nursing
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1860Victorian fashion
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1860Florence Nightingale letter
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1860Coal mining
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1861Mrs Beeton - Lady's maid
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1861Mrs Beeton
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1861Mrs Beeton's Turkey
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1862A Hulk (prison ship)
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1863Underground trains
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1863Alice in Wonderland
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1866Letter from Charles Darwin
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1868City slums
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1869Opening of the Suez Canal
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1872Music Hall
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1876Street sellers
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1876Freakshow posters
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1878Invention of the telephone
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1878Illusionists and conjurers
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1880The textile industry
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1886Victorian farming
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1887Magic show
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1887Circus poster
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1887Victoria's Indian servant
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1888Match Girls Strike
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1888Jack the Ripper murders
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1890Daily shopping
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1892An Asian MP in Parliament
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1893Gladstone: Irish Home Rule
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1895Oscar Wilde on trial
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1896Nightingale Nurse diary
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1898Factory accidents
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1898Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Intro
This poster advertises the popular entertainments on offer at the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens. These include recreations of the Great Fire of London using special effects, a famed menagerie, an orchestral concert, a model of Venice, and a famous 'dwarf' known as General Tom Thumb performing in a hot air balloon. Posters such as these used bold lettering in different sizes and colours. This was a typical stylistic feature of Victorian advertising that helped to catch the eye of passers-by.
Shelfmark: Evan.2722
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Transcript
Under the patronage of Her most gracious Majesty.... Terrific representation of the Great Fire of London in 1666. General Tom Thumb Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from 4 till half-past 6. His four last appearances in London. First performance this season of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, … Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, August 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th, 1844, will be exhibited the grand modelled representation of London in the olden time painted by Danson and Telbin, … The far-famed menagerie, … The arrangements for the Promenade Concerts are upon the most extensive scale. The splendid band of this establishment conducted by Mr. Godfrey, … Tom Thumb! who will go through the entire of his performances, on a stage prepared in front of the orchestra, and afterwards traverse the gardens in a balloon! … prepared expressly for him by Mr. Charles Green, the celebrated aeronaut, … Model of Venice … The entertainments will terminate at dusk with a representation of the Great Fire of London as viewed from the river Thames in 1666, … Mr. Southby pyrotechnist. Admission one shilling. …
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