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  Emigrations Schemes,Illustrated London News
Eagerly crowding round the railed inclosure, the public were gratified with the sight of the new and very 'welcome' wonder, reposing on a wooden hand-barrow or tray, the yellow mass, almost pure relieved by a fl velvet cloth underneath.
There is no news from Tasmania beyond the appointment of three delegates from the Houses of Parliament to assist at a conference of the Australian colonies on the subject of a federal union.
The Jacobus Marthinus and the Panaloon, with patent fuel, from Swansea; the bark Nautile, from Havre; the Caroline Elizabeth, from London; the Valkyrien, from Copenhagen; and the Inglebay and the General Wilshire, from Kooria Mooria, with guano, were at the Cape.
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  Illustrated London News - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch magazine.
The naval brigade and marines storming the stockade at Shimonoseki in September 1864 - from the Illustrated London News, December 24, 1864
He sent to every clergyman in the country a copy of the number containing illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and by this means secured many new subscribers.
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 Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List 2007.0222
Majolica House, by Otto Wagner, at Vienna, Austria, 1898 to 1899.
Moser House, by Josef Hoffmann, at Vienna, Austria, 1901 to 1903.
Tassel House, by Victor Horta, at Brussels, Belgium, 1892 to 1893.
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 The Illustrated London News and Its Rivals
The first illustration on the front page of the first number was a view of the New Houses of Parliament.
While The Illustrated London News was published at sixpence, Lloyd's Illustrated was sold at twopence, and for that the reader had a paper of eight pages with three columns of type per page and several woodcuts.
The Illustrated London News itself was started while wars were being carried on against China and Afghanistan, and later the Franco-Prussian war floated The Graphic over all its early difficulties into the safe harbour of 120 per cent.
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 Illustrated London News - Manx related items
The Illustrated London News was first issued on 14 May 1842; founded by Herbert Ingram it remained in the family until the 1960's when it became part of the Thompson organisation.
Illustrations in early issues are printed from wooden blocks - the larger engravings, some of which occupied a double page spread, were built from smaller blocks clamped together.
Ingram installed the latest technology of the age but the large rotary presses could not easily handle illustrations thus a two stage process was employed in which the rotary press printed a text-only side of a page and then a slower flat bed press was used for those sides with illustrations.
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 Illustrated London News - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
A pioneer in the use of various graphic arts, it was London's first illustrated periodical, the first periodical to make extensive use of woodcuts and engravings, and the first to use photographs.
In defense of privilege: the city of London and the challenge of municipal reform, 1875-1890.
Seeking the spirit of unity: a London meeting of representatives from Iraqi Opposition groups illustrated that simply getting rid of Saddam will not be enough to put Iraq back on the road to recovery.
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 The Early History of the Illustrated London News
News of a disastrous fire at Hamburg which broke out on May 5th was brought to London by the steamship Caledonia when she anchored off the Tower of London during the evening of May 10th.
When an illustration was to occupy a page, or double-page or even a larger space, the small blocks were drilled and channelled underneath for the insertion of brass bolts and nuts which gripped the pieces of wood together "without line, speck or flaw", thus making a printing surface of the size required.
If a large illustration had been drawn on the surface of six blocks bolted together, the pieces could be unbolted and distributed to six engravers and when their work was finished the pieces would be bolted up again, thus saving much time.
www.iln.org.uk /iln_years/earlyhistiln.htm   (5269 words)

  
 Sea Containers Services Ltd :: Lisa Barnard Appointed Director of Public Relations - Sea Containers Group of Companies
The Illustrated London News publishes the annual report of Sea Containers Ltd., establishes web sites for the company's various business units, maintains the company's photo library, produces sales literature and presentations for executives in addition to its primary role as contract publisher of life style magazines.
In her new public relations position she will be in charge of all corporate communications and will be assisted by William W. Galvin in the U.S. who is responsible for investor relations.
Issuers of news releases and not PR Newswire are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content.
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 Property, Publishing and Plantations
First published in 1842, the Illustrated London News was the world's first pictorial magazine.
Its founder Herbert Ingram believed that 'visual appeal is the essence of drama' and with that vision the magazine went on to become one of the most important contemporary records of human life over the last eventful 150 years.
The collection is based upon some of the most popular publications of past decades, not just from The Illustrated London News, but also from its sister publications of the time, The Graphic, The Sphere, Sketch, Tatler, Bystander, Britannia and Eve, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sport and Country and The Illustrated War News.
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 Illustrated London News --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The first man in Britain to notice the effect of illustrations on sales and grasp their possibilities was a newsagent in Nottingham, Herbert Ingram, who moved to London in 1842 and began publishing The Illustrated London News, a weekly consisting of 16 pages of letterpress and 32 woodcuts.
The U.S. illustrator, poster artist, and portrait painter James Montgomery Flagg is remembered especially for his World War I recruiting poster of a pointing Uncle Sam with the caption “I Want You.” He also wrote and illustrated a number of books.
Illustrated news article on the relation between science fiction and space research, from the British Broadcasting Corporation, London, U.K. Includes links to related scientific reports.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9042144?tocId=9042144   (791 words)

  
 London - Illustrated London News
Illustrated London News and similar publications 1842 to c.1899.
Illustrated guides to the London of Charles Dickens in the form of guides to short walks and guides to the London of particular novels like David Copperfield.
He announced in The Illustrated London News that his magazine's concern would be "with the English poor" and that...
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 The Illustrated London News - Viaducts
He reported in favour of making entirely new foundations; and in 1881 a Bill was introduced for the construction of a new Tay Bridge, which would cost £670,000 sixty feet westward of the one that fell.
William Henry Barlow, of London, is a son of the late Professor Barlow, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
In 1838 he became assistant-engineer of the Manchester and Birmingham (London and North-Western) Railway, and was subsequently engineer to the Midland Railway in the construction of several branch lines, and in designing the St.
www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/ind_rev/iln/viaduct.htm   (2787 words)

  
 Lincoln And The Civil War:  1860 - 1865
Founded in 1842, The Illustrated London News is the granddaddy of the weekly illustrated-newspapers.
HarpWeek has selected and presents the content (about 8%) of The London Illustrated News relating to the United States (or “America,” as it was referred to after the Civil War began).
Its news stories and editorials present the unfolding diplomatic and economic machinations of the three sides—Britain, the Union, and the Confederacy—as well as the contentious issue of the refitting of Confederate warships in British ports.
www.lincolnandthecivilwar.com /SubLevelPages/IllusLondon.asp   (330 words)

  
 The Illustrated London News, Colonialism, and Jane Eyre
The Illustrated London News, Colonialism, and Jane Eyre
Newspapers such as The Illustrated London News had a hand in producing a colonial discourse -- or in the exact words of the title of one particle article, "The Imperial Principle." Another article from The Illustrated London News, entitled "Emigration and Colonization," smacks of ethnocentric, elitist, if not megalomaniacal dogma and propaganda.
In "The Imperial Principle," from The Illustrated London News, imperialism is valued as being almost antithetical to commerce.
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 Browse - Article - The Civil War in America from The Illustrated London News
It was finished on the 25th ult., and a message exchanged between the Mayors of San Francisco and New York.
Seward; but the New York Tribune hopes that these extraordinary powers will be used as seldom as possible, and that the offender will in loyal districts be speedily brought to trial.
Arms and munitions of war are arriving in New York from England and the Continent.
cti.library.emory.edu /iln/browse.php?id=iln39.1116.134   (1001 words)

  
 The Illustrated London News at OLD MAGAZINE SHOP
THE LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS - JANUARY 1975 The Illustrated London News, first published in 1842, evolved into one of the UK's major magazines and contained commentary on social and domestic affairs and photographic articles on world events, sports, arts, etc., which pertained to British interests.
THE LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS - JUNE 1975 The Illustrated London News, first published in 1842, evolved into one of the UK's major magazines and contained commentary on social and domestic affairs and photographic articles on world events, sports, arts, etc., which pertained to British interests.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - APRIL 1976 The Illustrated London News, first published in 1842, evolved into one of the UK's major magazines and contained commentary on social and domestic affairs and photographic articles on world events, sports, arts, etc., which pertained to British interests.
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 Civil War 3
Chauncey DePew (1834-1928) was an attorney with the New York Railroad, eventually rising to the Chairman of the Board.
This is a large double page print illustrating Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 4, 1862, with two smaller views of a Confederate camp and a view of the city after the battle had ended and the Union Army had retreated.
At the top is the interior of Fort Lafayette, New York Harbour with fl workers in the foreground and a gathering of Union Officers.
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 The Illustrated London News -- Sax Rohmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The Illustrated London News, Christmas Number for 1918 is a remarkable presentation: color cover and 30 illustrations by R. Caton Woodville.
All of the illustrations are substantial (no small vignettes), and some are full-page (9 x 12 inches or larger).
The versions used as plates in some of the hard-cover editions of the book are only a pale hint of the magazine originals.
www.njedge.net /~knapp/LondonNews.htm   (71 words)

  
 Illustrated London News
He announced in the London Illustrated News that the concern of the magazine would be "with the English poor" and the "three essential elements of discussion with us will be the poor laws, the factory laws, and the working of the mining system".
Later Herbert Ingram was to become MP for Boston and until his death in 1860 continued his campaign for social reform in the House of Commons.
Illustrated London News to bring an end child labour in the mines.
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 Illustrated London News Home Page
The Illustrated London News magazine which was first printed in 1842 is the finest pictorial example of a historic social record of British and world events upto the present day.
Herbert Ingram MP for Boston and founder of The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News from the beginning in 1842 when it was first published up to the present day.
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 Casino News & Articles - October 13, 2006
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Betcorp's shares lost half their value last Tuesday on news of the ban, mirroring the rest of the sector, which is mostly London-listed and lost about $7 billion of market value.
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 An Introduction to The Illustrated London News
However, the case may be made that Ingram was the right man at the right time, for the government had only recently withdrawn the taxes on cheap periodicals it had levied after the Peterloo Massacre (1819) in order to impede the growth of a reform-minded press aimed at the working class.
Although working-class households could ill afford a daily paper, a weekly illustrated paper was not beyond their means, especially after the cancellation of the advertising duty in 1853 enabled cheap periodicals to survive without party or denominational financial backing.
No detail of daily life was too commonplace not to appear in the magazine's pages, from the payment of rural hop-pickers, to the sale of holly in the squares of London at Christmas, to the interiors of those bastions of male exclusivity, the social clubs of London.
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 Illustrated London News 1859-1890
Our Illustration represents one of the most beautiful of the fine collection of pheasants now living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London.
His residence was on the shore of a lagoon, where he delighted in paddling his own canoe along the banks overhung with profuse and diverse semi-tropical vegetation, the bamboo groves being most luxuriant in Formosa.
They were mostly those of incidents observed in an excursion that he undertook, with two friends, on horseback, to the mountains in the interior, above the village of Bankimsing, where the Pepu-huans, the half-civilised natives under Chinese rule, dwell in the neighbourhood of a savage race of highlanders.
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 Casino News & Articles - August 25, 2006
The new fund of funds is aimed at investors with an appetite for higher risk and volatility.
The New Yorker has been a loyal Pinnacle Casino player for nearly two years and after playing numerous hands of stud poker, everything came up spades when he was dealt a royal flush to take home the biggest single-hand payout in the online casino’s history.
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 Casino News & Articles - October 20, 2006
Following on from our InfoPowa news flash on this watershed event for the online gambling industry, the anti-online gambling measure attached to the primary US port security bill was signed into US law at mid-morning this week on an appropriate enough date of Friday 13th.
According to a Reuters news bulletin, the company said it would comply with the Act to ensure that it can continue to operate with the support of its commercial partners and to protect its shareholders, business partners, employees and reputation.
The new Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is going to stifle the online gambling industry in the United States, and state politicians supporting the idea of regulated poker in the state of North Dakota should know that it is time to fold their cards, says state attorney general Wayne Stenehjem.
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 London Illustrated News , British Empire 1
Overhead is the fine vaulting and decoration of the roof and walls of the new St. Paul`s.
This print shows four trumpeters in traditional Royal Herald costume announcing the Queen`s arrival in Parliament Behind the trumpeters stand two Beefeaters, traditional bodyguards to Royalty and custodian`s to the Tower of London, also dressed in traditional costumes.
On the other side of the room is a group of Horse Guards whilst to the right of the print is the Speaker of the House and the Prime Minister both bowing to the Queen on her arrival.
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