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Images from the collected issues of the magazine Cassell’S Family magazine for the year 1889.
Between 1874 and 1896, including for the year represented here, Wikipedia claims that the magazine was edited by the H. G. Bonavia Hunt (1847 – 1917), but the Wikipedia page for that person does not mention it, and it seems unlikely.
The magazine was published by Cassell & Co., in Britain, the USA and elsewhere, and is out of copyright.
Title: Cassell’s Family Magazine
Editor: Hamer, Sam H.
Published by: Cassell & Co., Ltd.
City: London, Paris, New York, Melbourne
Date: 1889
Total items: 7
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Frontispiece: A Girl’s Face, after Greuze
This portrait, an engraving printed in red ink with a border in a delicate pale green, illustrates a poem by J. R> Eastwood: [more...] [$]
Jean and George were Exchanging Glances and Whispered Words
A young man in Victorian hiking gear, George, is sprawled on the grass near ayoung lady, Jean, who wears a bonnet and dress. In the background are several more people; the whol scene set in a grassy [...] [more...] [$]
Miss Fallutine Preferred to Walk
two women, wearing winter boots, furs, bonnets, walk arm in arm together over snowy grass. They carry skates. In the background are wooden fences and trees. [more...] [$]
For One Brief Moment Our Eyes Met
In this scene from a late Victorian magazine, a well-dressed man using a crutch has raised his bowler hat in greeting to a lady with a parasol. The lady wears an elaborate dress and bonnet. The gate appears to be in an iron fence; behind it a path [...] [more...] [$]
Flying saucer over the glittering city of the North Pole
In this 1880s science fiction story the protagonists are visiting the North Pole of Venus in their flying saucer or spaceship. [more...] [$]
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