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Illustrations from The Illustrated London News, Vol. LVI (1870).
This was a popular weekly newspaper in London, with huge numbers of engravings. Because of the printing processes and relatively low paper quality the engravings are not always very clear.
There is an index online at iln.org for 1870.
Title: Illustrated London News Vol 56
Editor: Leighton, George C.
City: London
Date: 1870
Total items: 38
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Holy Trinity, York]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/353-Holy-Trinity,-York-q75-216x200.jpg "[picture: Holy Trinity, York]")
See 353-Alms-Box,-Skipwith for more details [$]
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: H.---Vielle, or Hurdy-Gurdy]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Vielle,-or-Hurdy-Gurdy-q75-142x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: H.---Vielle, or Hurdy-Gurdy]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: H.—Vielle, or Hurdy-Gurdy
“The French vielle, which we should call a hurdy-gurdy, bears the date of 1550, and the monograms of Catherine de Medici and of Henri II., with the Royal arms of France; it has ten ivory keys and six tuning pegs; it is decorated, in black [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Out of the World]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/645-Out-of-the-World-q75-201x200.jpg "[picture: Out of the World]")
![[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.---Viola di Bordone]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/377-Viola-di-Bordone-q75-69x200.jpg "[picture: Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.---Viola di Bordone]")
Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.—Viola di Bordone
A Violoa di Bordone is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow. It is a sort of viol with cat-gut strings, but with a second, parallel set of metal strings. The metal strings are not played with the bow directly, but resonate in [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/wm/big/385-0001-entrance-to-the-tunnel-q75-184x200.jpg "[picture: The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill]")
The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill
Here we see people lining up to experience the first underground railway in London. There seems to have been a single carriage, dvided into first and second class, and pulled by [...] [more...] [$]
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