I don't know who here remembers Life Magazine, but their photo essays were legendary. If you remember it thoroughly enjoy the link if you don't remember it, you should get to know it.

Enjoy: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

These were great, thanks. Especially the nineteenth century ones. Fyi, the "Queen Victoria" link doesn't produce any results, but by deleting "Queen Victoria" in the search engine and keeping '1890s source:life' will produce the required pictures - which are the best, IMO.

Cheers Rover.

Edit: Oh, oh, the chap on the second page of the 1890s collection, Lord Curzon - I did my thesis on him!