CONTENTS
  

  Western Civilization PicturePack

Collection K:
Colonialism, Nationalism and Militarism, 1850 - 1914
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
   

PicturePack WCK01: Napoleon III of France, 1852-1870 ● Napoleon III, the French emperor 1852-1870 ● State ball at Napoleon III’s Tuileries Palace ● "The Empress Eugénie’s new Abyssinian page." ● Opening of the French Senate, 1852 ● Napoleon III flanked by two of his ministers ● Napoleon III depicted as a vulture ● "Imperial flunkies." ● A cartoon about French premier Jules Ferry ● Napoleon III at the Battle of Magenta, 1859 ● The Battle of Solferino, July 1859 ● Napoleon III and Bismarck at Biarritz in 1865 ● "The Empire Means Peace," by Honoré Daumier ● Emperor Maximilian of Mexico ● Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, 1867 ● Building the Suez Canal at Kantara, 1869 ● The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869  
 

PicturePack WCK02: Italian & German Unification; the Franco-Prussian War ● Francis Joseph I, Austrian Emperor 1848-1916 ● Hungarians vs. Austria in Italian liberation war ● Count Camillo di Cavour (1810-1861) ● Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia and Italy ● Neapolitan troops met by Garibaldi’s forces ● A victorious Garibaldi enters Naples ● The people of Naples cast their ballots ● Humbert I of Italy ● "Italian Politics." ● Map: the unification of Italy, 1859-1870 ● Map: the unification of Germany, 1866-1871 ● Otto von Bismarck ● Cartoon, ruthless means to gain German unity ● "Of One Mind (For Once!)." ● "Bismarck content as colonial powers scramble." ● "Bismarck forces army budget on the Reichstag." ● Krupp’s great gun ● Count Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891) ● Battle of Chevilly, Franco-Prussian War, 1870 ● Cartoon about food crisis in Paris ● Parisian cat and dog meat market in Paris, 1870 ● Gambetta’s balloon flight from Paris   
 

PicturePack WCK03: Russia, 1850-1915; theCrimean War ● Alsace-Lorraine: "You may take me..." ● In Russia of Nicholas I, "the walls have ears." ● Russian nobles use serfs in a card game, 1854 ● Alexander III, tsar from 1881 to 1894, and family ● Cossacks slaughter people of Odessa, 1905 ● "Nicholas II and his People." ● "Our Constitution; please do not breathe on it." ● Russian battleship hit by Japanese fire ● Japanese bombard Port Arthur ● A Russian priest in the Russo-Japanese War, 1905 ● Russians arrive at Treaty Conference ● Russian peasants, about 1909-1915 ● The Zlatonist Iron Works ● A joiner’s workshop, Russia, 1896 ● Russian worker with his son and granddaughter ● Turkish fleet destroyed by Russians, 1853 ● H.M. Steam Sloop Fury vs. Russian ships ● French infantry lands at Gallipolli ● Montenegrin soldiers in their native dress ● Fraternization during the Crimean War ● British Foot Guards at Scutari, 1854 ● Roger Fenton’s photographic van ● Allies at Sebastopol, Russian Crimean fortress ● Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Balaklava ● The Battle of Inkerman, in the Crimean War ● Florence Nightingale in her hospital at Scutari ● A portrait of Florence Nightingale   
 

PicturePack WCK04: Europe in the Late 19th Century ● Albert I of Belgium (1875-1934) ● Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962) ● Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) ● Alfonso XIII of Spain and his Queen Victoria ● Pope Pius IX opens the Vatican Council in 1869 ● Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) ● Pope Pius X ● John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) ● The Grotto at Lourdes ● Hadol’s comic map of Europe in 1871 ● "The Game of the Day," a cartoon, 1879 ● The Triple Alliance: Austria, Germany, Italy ● The Three Emperors’ League ● Cartoon opposing French Republic pact with tsar ● A German view of British imperialism in 1915 ● A 1911 political cartoon from Punch, London ● Anglo-German naval rivalry ● A battle in the first Balkan War ● The Dolmabaçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ● The Grand Stairway of the Dolmabaçe Palace ● The Grand Reception Room of the Dolmabaçe     
 

PicturePack WCK05: European and U.S. Imperialism ● Britain takes over Burma in 1885 ● "The Rhodes Colossus." ● U.S.S. Kearsage vs. C.S.S. Alabama ● Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ● Lord & Lady Curzon at 1902 Delhi Durbar ● The Indian Supreme Court in Madras, ca. 1860 ● An Englishman in India dresses for his day ● Storming of Delhi by British troops, 1857 ● Emperor Bahadur Shah II, restored by the sepoys ● Execution of mutineers by the British ● U.S. distracted, John Bull buys cotton elsewhere ● A cartoon, "New Crowns for Old Ones." ● The influence of the British and French in Egypt ● Cartoon about Ismail Pasha ● "The Modern Civilization of Europe." ● Map: European scramble for trading ports in China ● European "factories" in Canton, 1857 ● Chinese tea merchants ● European fort during second Opium War, 1860 ● King’s Dragoon Guards in second Opium War ● The Catholic cathedral in Shanghai, 1890 ● Protestant missionaries in Fuzhou ● Japanese vs. Chinese cavalry, 1894-1895 ● Nationalist Party founder Sun Yat-sen ● Officers watch the advance on Peking, 1900 ● French Zouaves in China, Boxer uprising, 1900 ● "The Yellow Peril." ● U.S. Commodore Perry in Japan ● The Earl of Elgin lands at Jeddo (Tokyo), 1858 ● Indochina at the time of French conquest, 1883 ● The Conference of Berlin, 1884-1885 ● Stanley and Livingstone in Africa in 1871 ● Leopold II reigned in Belgium 1865-1909 ● British Sudanese troops with a machine gun ● Paul Kruger, Transvaal President 1883-1900 ● Louis Botha (1862-1919) ● The diamond mine at Kimberley ● Miners in a gold mine at Johannesburg ● A company of Boer soldiers in 1901 ● "Chamberlain’s accomplice...," a cartoon ● Map: European partitions of Africa, 1914    
  

PicturePack WCK06: 19th Century Industrialization & Socialism ● Steelworks in the Saar ● Essen, Germany, ca. 1600 ● Essen, Germany, in 1911 ● Steelworks at Le Creusot, France ● The steelworks at Charleroi, Belgium, 1910 ● Making steel by the Bessemer process ● A steel plant in the Ural mountains, early 1900s ● Men and boys leave the pits in Derbyshire, 1912 ● Middle-class charity ● Room of a military tailor and his family, 1863 ● A soup kitchen in London’s East End, 1867 ● A pawnshop in Paris, ca. 1852 ● The poor in London’s Whitechapel district ● "Over London by Rail," housing for the poor ● Housing for the working class in Glasgow ● Workers’ housing in Alsace, France, 1861 ● Working-class houses in coal-mining France ● John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) ● Herbert Spencer, who founded "Social Darwinism." ● Karl Marx (1818-1883) ● Socialist leader Jean Jaurès ● The first worker elected to Parliament    
  

PicturePack WCK07: Peasants & Women’s Rights Before WWI ● Harvest home parade, England, 1863 ● "The Village Festival," English rural life ● French peasants harrowing, 1906 ● French wine-growers during the strike of 1907 ● Russian village of Tokarevka, about 1909-1915 ● Russian peasants about 1909-1915 ● Russian peasant women doing laundry ● A small village on the Trans-Siberian railroad ● Poster for a transatlantic steamship voyage, 1873 ● Emigrants on a ship, 1902 ● Italian emigrants bound for the U.S., 1905 ● Trans-Siberian Railroad immigrant train ● Farmhouse beside Trans-Siberian Railroad ● Prosperous farmhouse near Trans-Siberian Railroad ● Frenchman fires his pregnant shop girl ● Ridiculing Mill’s defense of women’s rights ● Suffragists march in London, ca. 1912 ● Emmeline Pankhurst, suffrage leader, arrested ● The arrest of a suffragist in London, ca. 1913 ● A cartoon, " ‘Ark to the sound of war, luv"   
 

PicturePack WCK08: France: The Third Republic, 1870-1914; the Dreyfus Affair ● Thiers extinguishes the light of press freedom ● A cartoon on the Paris Commune of 1871 ● Members of the Paris Commune ● Théophile Ferré, Paris Commune member ● Plea by the bronze men of the Vendôme column ● Fall of the Vendôme column, 1871 ● The Hôtel de Ville of Paris in flames, 1871 ● Pétroleuses ● Communard prisoners are shot ● "The Debacle." ● "The Temptation." ● "The Ideal of Certain Newspapers." ● "France pulled toward republic and monarchy." ● Cartoon, Thiers as rural vote magician ● Marshal Patrice de MacMahon replaced Thiers ● The Reactionary Committee ● The Basilica Sacre Coeur in Paris, France ● The pope recruits helpers to defend ignorance ● "Emperor Boulanger I." ● Scandal about selling Legion of Honor medals ● "The Fourth Estate Arises." ● Captain Alfred Dreyfus (second from right) ● J’Accuse, by Emile Zola ● Alfred Dreyfus and his family in 1894 ● Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) ● "A Necessary Separation of church and state." ● Priests prepare to leave France in 1904   
 

PicturePack WCK09: Queen Victoria and Edward VII of England ● Queen Victoria, a photo made late in her reign ● Prince Albert ● A satire about the Prince of Wales’ youth ● Sandringham House, a royal country residence ● Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and author ● "Dishing the Whigs." ● "Political Tailors." ● British cartoon ridiculing habits of Irish poor ● Charles Stuart Parnell addresses a meeting ● "A crucified Ireland cries out." ● Edward VII of England, 1901-1910 ● Edward VII poses in an automobile in 1902 ● David Lloyd George, Member of Parliament ● A socialist addresses a London crowd in 1911 ● Blackleg driver is given a police escort, 1911 ● The National Insurance Bill of 1911 ● Winston Churchill (1874-1965)    
 

PicturePack WCK10: Science, Medical and Technical Progress, Late 19th Century ● The English naturalist Charles Darwin ● Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) ● Cartoon satirizing Darwin’s theory ● "Natural Selection," a caricature of Darwin ● Marie and Pierre Curie ● Marie Curie (1867-1934) ● Ernest Lord Rutherford (1871-1937) ● Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ● German scientist Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) ● Lord Kelvin, heat and electricity pioneer ● Italian inventor Gugliemo Marconi (1874-1937) ● Marconi with his wireless telegraph ● The Observatory of Paris in 1849 ● Louis Lumière, pioneer French cinematographer ● Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, 1885 ● English bacteriologist Sir Ronald Ross ● Dr. Robert Heinrich Herman Koch (1843-1910) ● Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German bacteriologist ● The English surgeon Joseph Lister (1827-1912) ● Lister carbolic spray as an antiseptic ● British physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ● The Hungarian physician Ignaz P. Semmelwiess ● Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) ● The Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov ● Patients at the Salpêtrière mental institution ● Chalets at Salpêtrière for women patients ● Atlantic cable ready for shipment, 1857 ● A ship used in laying the Atlantic cable ● The Corinthian Canal in Greece ● Threshing machine on Trans-Siberian Railroad ● A boring machine in the Mont Cenis tunnel ● The Forth Railway Bridge, Scotland   
 

PicturePack WCK11: The First Automobiles; Air Transportation ● Gottleib Daimler in motorized carriage, 1886 ● Karl Benz driving a patent motor wagon, 1887 ● A 1902 Mercedes Simplex ● A Peugeot automobile built in 1892 ● A Peugeot automobile, built in 1906 ● Peugeot cars at Grand Prix, Lyons, France, 1914 ● Crew of balloon L’Universe after failure ● Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin ● A Zeppelin dirigible airship Model Z2 in 1908 ● Control car of the Zeppelin Deutschland ● The French military dirigible "Republique" ● A man with a box kite in Germany ● Otto Lilienthal in one of his hanging gliders ● An early airplane designed by Arnold Coblitz ● The first powered flight ● The Tissandier-Wright airplane in France ● Santos Dumont’s 14-bis airplane in flight ● Louis Bleriot at his plane’s controls, 1909 ● Louis Blériot on his cross-Channel flight, 1909   
 

PicturePack WCK12: The Urban Revolution, Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries ● The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton ● Postal wagons in Berlin, 1884 ● Kroll’s beer garden in Berlin, 1904 ● A coffeehouse in Copenhagen, 1854 ● Electric street lights in a German city, ca. 1884 ● An 1853 etching showing an Italian fruit vendor ● Washstand for the "bachelor’s bedroom suite." ● A bathroom, 1884 ● A late-Victorian bathroom in Chester, England ● A Victorian era bathroom ● Earth Closet ● An "underground street," Paris, mid-19th century ● Horse-drawn omnibuses on a London street ● The velocipede or "boneshaker." 1861 ● The first safety-bicycle, 1888 ● Two British bicycle "belles," 1898 ● An electric trolley in Berlin, 1881 ● An electrically-driven London tram, about 1915 ● A steam omnibus of about 1900-1914 ● An early 20th-century English double-decker bus ● Early 20th-century English gasoline "jitney." ● Fleet Street in London, ca. 1900 ● Piccadilly Circus in London, ca. 1914 ● Leadenhall Market in London, 1881 ● The interior of Leadenhall Market, 1881 ● The St. Pancras Railway Station, London ● The quality of drinking water in London, 1866 ● A chimney-sweep in London, 1877 ● A young London street sweeper, 1877 ● "Jack Black, Her Majesty’s rat catcher." ● Rat-hunting in London, ca. 1852 ● Advertisement for Pears, an English soap, 1902   
 

PicturePack WCK13: Paris in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries ● The Arc de Triomphe ● A view of Paris including the Louvre ● The Eiffel Tower, shown half completed ● The Eiffel Tower just after its completion ● A view of the Eiffel Tower, late 20th century ● A Paris bath man, 1907 ● A labor exchange at Paris’s City Hall, 1869 ● St. Martin Street, Paris, mid-19th century ● Paris’s central food market, Les Halles, ca. 1852 ● A public scribe and his shop, 1852 ● Ad, about 1895, for a popular French aperitif ● An advertisement for a circus, about 1895 ● A claque leader in mid-19th-century Paris ● "Going to first Communion," Paris, ca. 1900-1914 ● French women’s fashions for 1867 ● Paris women’s fashions for 1890 ● Paris fashions for 1911 ● A scene in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1866 ● Court tennis played in Paris, mid 19th century ● Dancing at the Prado, Paris, mid 19th century ● A poster from a ca. 1895 art exhibit in Paris   
 

PicturePack WCK14: Arts and Literature in the Late 19th Century ● La Scala, the opera house in Milan, Italy ● The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London ● The Vienna Opera House, built in 1869 ● The Opera House in Paris, France ● Interior of the Bavarian State Opera House ● Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) ● Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) ● Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) ● The English actress Lillie Langtry ● Charles Baudelaire, major 19th century poet ● Count Lev Tolstoy, Russian novelist ● Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (or Dostoevsky) ● The Irish poet and dramatist Oscar Wilde ● An Aubrey Beardsley illustration for a Wilde play ● Bertrand Russell, British intellectual ● George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ● Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ● Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) ● Gustave Courbet, self-portrait ● "Ballet Scene," by Edgar Degas ● The Lovers, a sculpture group by Rodin ● The Sagrada Familia by Antoní Gaudí ● Detail of the sculpture from the Sagrada Familia ● A Barcelona theater styled b y Gaudi ● A mosaic from Gaudi’s Barcelona theater