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Culture, Posters & Adverts · 1849 · Waverley corridor

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Records must match the selected period. Films must additionally connect to the Waverley corridor—Edinburgh, Midlothian, the Borders or the route itself—so unrelated Glasgow and Highlands material no longer appears here. Broader period posters remain clearly labelled as context.

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Adverts, posters & visual culture · 1849

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Poster for the Great Exhibition in London in 18511851The Great Exhibition, LondonGeorge Cruikshank print showing crowds going to the Great Exhibition of 18511851All the World Is Going to See the Great ExhibitionInterpretive illustration for Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition1851-1852Official Catalogue of the Great ExhibitionInterpretive illustration for A Drop of London Water1850A Drop of London WaterJohn Snow map plotting cholera deaths and water pumps in London in 18541854John Snow's Cholera Map1855 colour lithograph titled A Hot Night in the Batteries during the Crimean War1855A Hot Night in the BatteriesTinted 1855 lithograph of Lord Raglan's headquarters during the Crimean War18 January 1855Lord Raglan's HeadquartersInterpretive illustration for A Patient, Many Drugs and an Undertakerc. 1850A Patient, Many Drugs and an Undertaker1851 newspaper advertisement for the Equitable Fire Office1851Equitable Fire Office
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Exhibition poster · 1851

The Great Exhibition, London

An anonymous contemporary poster for the Great Exhibition records the national spectacle of manufactured goods, design and industry that defined 1851.

Unknown artist, via Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain Mark

Insurance advertising · 1851

Equitable Fire Office

An advertisement printed in the 1851 Farmer's Almanac promotes fire insurance through the Equitable Fire Office, showing how protection of homes, shops and stock was sold in the early railway age.

National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, via Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain Mark