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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
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.
![[picture: A Calculating Machine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0775-A-Calculating-Machine-q75-350x200.jpg "[picture: A Calculating Machine]")
![[picture: The Birthplace of Charles Dickens]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0548-Birthplace-of-Charles-Dickens-q75-124x200.jpg "[picture: The Birthplace of Charles Dickens]")
The Birthplace of Charles Dickens
1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0459-irish-lent-carnival-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume]")
Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume
Two of the revellers were dressed up to represent an old man and woman in Irish peasant costume. From a great pot in front of them they ladled out boiling tar! [more...] [$]
![[picture: The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0221-Philip-James-Bailey-q75-293x200.jpg "[picture: The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham]")
The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham
An elderly gentleman with white hair and a white beard sits at a writing desk, pen in hand, gazing out of the window, lost in thought. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/440-Tyninghame-q75-313x200.jpg "[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]")
