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The Leisure Hour (page 1/3)

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Images and some text from The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, 1904/5.

Individual images may or may not be out of copyright here; I cannot guarantee that I have it right, sorry. Photographs taken before 1945 in England by British citizens and not published in other European countries are out of copyright. Engravings and drawings that were commissioned (works for hire) are also out of copyright, as are typographic elements. Other items are out of copyright 70 years after the death of the creator, generally.

Title: The Leisure Hour

Author: Various

City: London

Date: 1904

Total items: 17

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Hobgoblin Hall]

Hobgoblin Hall

A ruined hall, with cobwebs galore, a gothic mansion, a scene of death and decay, of neglect and ruin, a goth dream, perhaps the home of Victor or Victoria from the film Corpse Bride! [more...] [$]

[picture: Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume]

Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume

Two of the revellers were dressed up to represent an old man and woman in Irish peasant costume. From a great pot in front of them they ladled out boiling tar! [more...] [$]

[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]

Tyninghame on the Tyne

“Tyninghame on the Tyne (Residence of the Earl of Haddington) [more...] [$]

[picture: Charles Dickens in 1868]

Charles Dickens in 1868

From a photograph by Mason. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall

“On the page opposite to that which contains this touching picture we have placed a rmarkably handsome photograph of the great novelist as he was in the height of his fame. What a striking contrast! What a world of life-emotion [more...] [$]

[picture: Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands]

Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands

The farmer stands in a muddy field with one hand on his hip, behind a pair of horses hitched to a single-furrow plough [US: plow]. He wears a hat, a tied neckerchief and tall boots. [more...] [$]


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