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Als Urkunden noch gut aussahen... Charles Lindner (1851-1928) und Mathilda Mühlberger (1856-1921; der US-Beamte schrieb: Meuhlberger) heirateten am 28. Januar 1876 in Philadelphia/Pennsylvania, USA. Das aus dem deutschen Südwesten stammende Paar siedelte später in die Schweiz über, und die Heiratsurkunde fand ihren Weg in das Staatsarchiv des Kantons St. Gallen.

The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name bearing an image that is a glossy real photograph. The card was posted in Bournemouth using a 1½d. stamp on Friday the 12th. August 1921. It was sent to:

Mrs. Meades,
10, Woodlands Road,
Tonbridge,
Kent.

The message on the divided back of the card was a model of brevity:

"Just a card.
Arrived safe.
Very cold here.
Leaving Tuesday.
Love,
Yours,
P."

The Foundering of the St. Clair

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 12th. August 1921, the French cargo ship St. Clair caught fire at Mex, Egypt. It was beached and later declared a total loss.

Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle

The day also marked the death of Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle.

Rosalind Frances Howard (née Stanley) was born on the 20th. February 1845. She was a member of both the Stanley and Howard families.

Rosalind was known as the Radical Countess, because she was an activist for women's political rights and for the temperance movement.

-- Rosalind Howard - the Early Years

The Countess of Carlisle was born in Grosvenor Crescent, Belgravia, London, the tenth and last child of the Whig politician the Hon. Edward Stanley, and the women's education campaigner the Hon. Henrietta Stanley.

Her father was the eldest son of John Stanley, 1st. Baron Stanley of Alderley and his wife Lady Maria, daughter of the Earl of Sheffield. In 1848, her father was raised to the peerage as Baron Eddisbury, and two years later succeeded to his father's title, Baron Stanley of Alderley.

Rosalind was educated at home by private tutors. The Stanley family was exceptionally diverse in terms of religious convictions: Lord and Lady Stanley were high-church Anglicans, their eldest son Henry was a Muslim, their third daughter Maude was a low-church Anglican, their youngest son Algernon became a Roman Catholic bishop, their penultimate daughter Kate leaned towards atheism, while Rosalind herself identified as an agnostic.

-- Rosalind Howard's Marriage

On the 4th. October 1864, Rosalind married the painter George Howard, who became an active Liberal MP from 1879. She took part in the election campaigns of her husband and father-in-law Charles by canvassing, but refrained from speaking publicly, which was considered improper for a woman.

However in sharp contrast to her moderate husband, Rosalind soon joined the radical left, denouncing William Ewart Gladstone's occupation of Egypt, and campaigning for women's suffrage. She once responded to criticism of herself by saying:

"Fanatics have done a lot of the
world's work, and I don't mind
being classed with the fanatics."

In its early days, the marriage was close, and filled with romance. George showered Rosalind with love letters and nude sketches, but the couple gradually drifted apart.

They shared a dislike for alcohol, but little else; when the Liberal Party split on the issue of Irish home rule, which Rosalind supported, George decided to side with his cousin, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Liberal Unionist Party.

Due to their personal and political disagreements, the Howards spent most of their married life separated, with Rosalind preferring to stay at their country houses, Castle Howard and her favourite home, Naworth Castle.

-- Rosalind Howard's Views and Causes

Despite being plagued by poor health, Rosalind Howard made use of her organisational skills. She joined Liberal Party women's associations and the temperance movement. She also involved herself in the management of the extensive family estates, and took part in local government.

She took the temperance pledge in 1881, and started requiring teetotalism from her tenants, and closing down public houses on her estates the next year.

Rosalind gained further credit in 1889 when her husband succeeded his uncle William as the 9th. Earl of Carlisle, thereby also inheriting the family fortune, and she became known as the Countess of Carlisle.

In 1891, a United Kingdom Alliance official convinced Lady Carlisle to speak on the subject of temperance at a drawing-room meeting of women. She soon became a successful platform speaker and vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance, as well as president of the North of England Temperance League in 1892.

In 1890, Lady Carlisle became a member of the Women's Liberal Federation and persuaded the organisation to support extending the suffrage to all women, but denounced Pankhurst suffragettes' violent methods.

She was elected president of the British Women's Temperance Association in 1903 and president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Association in 1906, retaining both offices until her death.

Lady Carlisle disagreed with the policy of her predecessors, Lady Henry Somerset and Thomas Palmer Whittaker, who, among other things, advocated compensating licence holders who lost their livelihoods due to temperance.

The Countess of Carlisle allied herself with a small group of Liberal MPs, including her son Geoffrey, her son-in-law Charles Henry Roberts, her secretary Leifchild Leif-Jones and her neighbour Sir Wilfrid Lawson.

The Good Templars supported her policies, but she refused invitations to join the mostly working-class and lower middle-class organisation.

When Lady Carlisle's daughter, Lady Dorothy Georgiana Howard, was attending Girton College, her closest college friends included archaeologist Gisela Richter and future candidate for Roman Catholic Sainthood Anna Abrikosova. During vacations, both were honored guests of Lady Carlisle at Castle Howard and Castle Naworth.

Although she had opposed the South African War, Lady Carlisle firmly supported British resistance to the Germans in the Great War. However the temperance movement and the Liberal Party had divided by then, leaving her without significant political influence.

She supported H. H. Asquith despite his unwillingness to promote prohibition, and opposed David Lloyd George's proposal to nationalise the drink trade during wartime.

Though Rosalind worked hard to improve working-class people's living conditions, she was an élitist who resented their role in democracy.

-- Rosalind Howard's Children

The Carlisles had 11 children:

-- Lady Mary Henrietta Howard (1865 – 1956), who married George Gilbert Aimé Murray, son of Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, in 1889.

-- Charles James Stanley Howard, 10th. Earl of Carlisle (1867–1912), married Rhoda Ankaret L'Estrange, eldest daughter of Col. Paget Walter L'Estrange.

-- Lady Cecilia Maude Howard (1868 - 1947), married Charles Henry Roberts, the Under-Secretary of State for India, in 1891.

-- Hon. Hubert George Lyulph Howard (1871 – 1898), killed at the Battle of Omdurman while serving as a correspondent for The Times.

-- Capt. Hon. Christopher Edward Howard (1873 – 1896), 8th. King's Royal Irish Hussars, died of pneumonia at Slains Castle after contracting a cold at a shooting party.

-- Hon. Oliver Howard FSA FRGS (1875 – 1908), diplomat, who married Muriel Stephenson (1876 – 1952) in 1900. After his death from fever in Northern Nigeria, where he was British Resident, his widow married Arthur Meade, 5th. Earl of Clanwilliam.

-- Hon. Geoffrey William Algernon Howard (1877 – 1935), married Hon. Ethel Christian Methuen, eldest daughter of Paul Methuen, 3rd. Baron Methuen.

-- Lt. Hon. Michael Francis Stafford Howard (1880 – 1917), married Nora Hensman in 1911. He was killed in action in the Great War.

-- Lady Dorothy Georgiana Howard (1881 – 1968), married Francis Robert Eden, 6th. Baron Henley (1877 – 1962) in 1913.

-- Elizabeth Dacre Ethel Howard (1883 – 1883), died in infancy. There is a terra cotta effigy by Sir Edgar Boehm on her tomb at Lanercost Priory.

-- Lady Aurea Fredeswyde Howard (1884 – 1972), married Denyss Chamberlaine Wace in 1923; he was granted an annulment in 1926 on the grounds that the marriage was never consummated. She married Maj. Thomas MacLeod OBE in 1928.

-- Rosalind Howard's Death and Legacy

By the time Lord Carlisle died in 1911, Lady Carlisle's autocracy had estranged her from most of her children and friends. She strongly disapproved of her daughters' flirtatiousness, and bitterly argued with her eldest son Charles, a Tory politician.

For several years, Lady Carlisle refused to speak to her daughter Lady Dorothy due to her marriage to the brewer Francis Henley (afterwards Baron Henley). Lady Henley later claimed that her mother was privately a tyrant, despite appearing at her best in public.

Rosalind's husband left most of the family property to her for life, and instructed her to divide it among their children upon her death.

The Countess of Carlisle died on the 12th. August 1921 at her home in Kensington Palace Gardens, having survived seven of her children, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium four days later.

Her ashes were interred alongside her husband's at Lanercost Priory on the 18th. August.

The surviving children found her last will and testament to be unfair, and agreed to re-divide the inheritance. Her daughter Lady Cecilia succeeded her as president of the British Women's Temperance Association.

Lady Carlisle served as a model for Lady Britomart in George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara.

Friedensdenkmal mit Sonne

Friedensdenkmal im Gegenlicht

Friedensdenkmal mit Schnee

5 Mark
Kingdom of Bavaria
King Ludwig II
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Kingdom of Bavaria
King Ludwig II
DEUTSCHES REICH
LUDWIG II - KŒNIG V. BAYERN
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DEUTSCHES REICH - 1876
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When a Jameson and a Guinness are in that order, then the young lad has to have a lemonade! That was always the way and the way it should be. In this album however the Jameson is a Miss, while the Guinness is Cecil, while the young lad wasn't invited to the Ball!

A really interesting album from the Library's collection, with the high and mighty living it up in the grandeur of Viceroy's quarters in Dublin Castle. The families of Ireland's most famous drink producers had climbed the dizzy heights to be among the specially invited guests.

Photographer: Chancellor Photographer

Date: Circa 1876 Saturday, 11 March 1876 Ball took place on Monday, 13 March 1876

NLI Ref.: ALB450

FÓGRA: Photographs in our Albums are generally not individually catalogued, so if you want to examine this photo in the NLI catalogue, just scroll to image 21 of 53 in this Dublin Castle Fancy Ball Album

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

Located in rural Coffee County, TN, the owners of this farm had a mural painted on the front of their Barn. Sadly, the sun is in the wrong spot, and the mural is faded a bit. The middle of the mural features a farmhouse displaying the name David Brown Farm Est. 1876.

Thanks to my friend Michael A. who found this for me.

Keystone of a relieving arch above the entrance of an fort. This fort is part of the fortifications in Muiden, made in the second half of the 19th Century. These fortifications were built as part of the so called 'Stelling van Amsterdam', which was created to defend the Capital of the Netherlands.
The architectural style of this fortification is a mixture of Gothic and Neo-Dutch Renaissance. Traditional castle elements such as fake battlements and fake loopholes have also been incorporated.

The numbers are put in a deeper carved surface of a keystone made of bluestone, which is placed in a masonry arch. The style is a bit Gothic.
About the 'Stelling van Amsterdam': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelling_van_Amsterdam

About the history of the use of year stones in architecture:
English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_plate
Dutch: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muuranker
And: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaartallen_op_gebouwen

Muiden, Dec. 14, 2014.

© 2014 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved

From the Canadian Co. Historical Society website:
canadiancountymuseum.com/general-sheridans-headquarters/
In July 1885, General Sheridan crossed the Cimarron River in Indian Territory en-route to the Cheyenne Agency. President Cleveland had ordered reinforcements to Fort Reno along with Generals Sheridan and Miles to meet with Agent Dyer and the Cheyenne leader Stone Calf. General Sheridan concluded that Agent Dyer was not too aggressive in his efforts to disarm, dismount and put Indians onto farms near Darlington. General Sheridan recommended to President Cleveland that all leases be terminated in Indian Territory and that any unauthorized person be removed from Indian land and that the military personnel replace the civilians at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency. While there is no written record to prove the exact year the building was built, it is believed to been constructed in 1876, under the orders of General Sheridan. To erect the log building, trenches were dug about two feet deep then the logs were stood on end in picket style instead of the traditional horizonal direction.

The cabin was one of the seven buildings at Fort Reno scheduled to be demolished in 1957. The El Reno Chamber of Commerce saved it and moved it to Adams Park. In 1992 it was moved to the Canadian County Museum. General Sheridan's Cabin is Canadian County's oldest standing structure.

From the Canadian Co. Historical Society website:
canadiancountymuseum.com/general-sheridans-headquarters/
In July 1885, General Sheridan crossed the Cimarron River in Indian Territory en-route to the Cheyenne Agency. President Cleveland had ordered reinforcements to Fort Reno along with Generals Sheridan and Miles to meet with Agent Dyer and the Cheyenne leader Stone Calf. General Sheridan concluded that Agent Dyer was not too aggressive in his efforts to disarm, dismount and put Indians onto farms near Darlington. General Sheridan recommended to President Cleveland that all leases be terminated in Indian Territory and that any unauthorized person be removed from Indian land and that the military personnel replace the civilians at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency. While there is no written record to prove the exact year the building was built, it is believed to been constructed in 1876, under the orders of General Sheridan. To erect the log building, trenches were dug about two feet deep then the logs were stood on end in picket style instead of the traditional horizonal direction.

The cabin was one of the seven buildings at Fort Reno scheduled to be demolished in 1957. The El Reno Chamber of Commerce saved it and moved it to Adams Park. In 1992 it was moved to the Canadian County Museum. General Sheridan's Cabin is Canadian County's oldest standing structure.

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Taken from the East Albert Lawn. Located in Kensington Gardens on Albert Memorial Road opposite the Royal Albert Hall. It is was designed by George Gilbert Scott.

Unveiled in 1872, The Albert Memorial commemorates the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 42.

Designed by George Gilbert Scott, with sculpture and other decorations by numerous Victorian artists and craftsmen. Granite, marble, limestone and metal. Square decoratively paved podium reached by steps to south; superimposed podia with steps to all sides, surmounted by ciborium-like canopy with clustered granite columns to four corners. Elaborate sculptured spire. Giant seated figure of Prince Albert within. Gables to all sides with pinnacles between. Richly sculptured band to base breaking outward at corners to support sculptured groups representing the industrial arts:- Agriculture, Manufacture, Commerce and Engineering. Further sculptured groups to four corners of stepped podium representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and linked by elaborate railings. Monument enriched with much figure and other sculpture and decorated also in numerous other techniques including mosaic, enamel, etc.

Prince Consort National Memorial (Albert Memorial), Non Civil Parish - 1217741 | Historic England.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1217741.