Sujet

The Sailors' Home at Great Yarmouth, 1861. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Sailors' Home at Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk], 1861. 'The Great Yarmouth Beachmen and Fishermen's Institute, British and Foreign Sailors' Home, and Refuge for the Shipwrecked of All Nations...consists of four stories and a basement [which]...is open night and day, affording warm baths, dry clothing, the means of washing and drying the clothes of the shipwrecked, and all necessary appliances for the restoration of suspended animation...On the ground floor is the coffee, news, and smoking room, open to every seafarer, gratis, at all hours...the museum...contains...an extensive collection of maritime charts, maps, and nautical instruments, and newspapers of the day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B24_283

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

10,3Mo (891,9Ko) / 16,1cm x 16,1cm / 1903 x 1896 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings England library time house houses home arts art seafaring British shelter color clock Norfolk refuge century Britain newspapers press print concept B&W timepiece yarmouth engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Great Yarmouth Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper Sailors' Home Unknown 19th-century