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![[picture: Front Cover, The Leisure Hour]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/tn/000-Front-Cover-348x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The Leisure Hour]")
Images and extracts from “The Leisure Hour” collected edition of 1896. It was published in London, where copyright lasts until 70 years after a person’s death. There is no editor credited, and usually no artist or engraver, but it’s not inconceivable that a twenty-year-old could have worked on this edition and lived to be over seventy. I have marked the images as being for non-commercial use only, but if you determine that an image is out of copyright, go ahead and use it as you will.
Title: The Leisure Hour
Published by: The Leisure Hour
City: London
Date: 1896
Total items: 17
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![[picture: London Driving]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/437-london-driving-q75-255x200.jpg "[picture: London Driving]")
![[picture: Darjeeling Railway 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/253-Darjeeling-Railway-a-q75-365x200.jpg "[picture: Darjeeling Railway 1]")
“India can show a most interesting experiment in railway constructioon in the recently built line to Darjeeling, on the slopes of the Himalayas. The problem to be solved by its projectors was how to construct a railway for goods and passenger traffic which shouold rise to a height of 7,000 feet in a distance of forty-five miles. The distance as the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Axis Deer (Calcutta)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/499-Axis-Deer-q75-228x200.jpg "[picture: Axis Deer (Calcutta)]")
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![[picture: Golden Strings]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/342-Golden-Strings-q85-102x200.jpg "[picture: Golden Strings]")
![[picture: Title Page, the Leisure Hour]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, the Leisure Hour]")
