A Victorian Scrapbook of Newspaper Articles by George Burgess (1829-1905)

The thumbnails below provide access to a large sample of the original newspapers (about 60%); larger images have not been included for obvious reasons.The scrapbook of George Burgess covering most of his working life from the late 1840's to the 1900's contains Victorian era newspaper articles (most undated, but a few have been dated). The articles are mostly from American newspapers between 1845 and 1857 while George Burgess was in America and British newspapers from 1857 to about 1901. The newspapers have also been transcribed and a transcript of them can be viewed by clicking here.

A Backslider.jpg	A Beautiful Conceit.jpg	A Border Farmer.jpg	A Boy.jpg	A Charitable Man.jpg
A conceited fellow.jpg	A Coquette and her lover.jpg	A Dutch Witness.jpg	A Gem.jpg	A Good Reason.jpg
A grocer up town.jpg	A Happy Woman.jpg	A Hatter.jpg	A Hint to Mothers.jpg	A Judgement.jpg
A Lawyer and a priest.jpg	A Lawyer's daughter.jpg	A Lecturer.jpg	A model Letter.jpg	A Mother.jpg
A New Reason for Matrimony.jpg	A Physician.jpg	A Politician.jpg	A Receipt for Happiness.jpg	A Rustic Roland for an Oliver.jpg
A Short Sermon.jpg	A Sick Man.jpg	A singular physiological fact.jpg	A Sinister Text.jpg	A Stump Orator.jpg
A Tipsy customer.jpg	A Valid Reason.jpg	A Village Maine Law in 1775.jpg	A Welsh Sermon.jpg	A Wife and Something to Boot.jpg
A word for the Ear of Single Men.jpg	A Word to Boys.jpg	Ada M.jpg	Advert - Broadmead-Bristol.jpg	Advice to Wives.jpg
Advice.jpg	Alice's Husband.jpg	All of a size.jpg	American Declaration of Independence.jpg	An Embarrassing Demand - Punch.jpg
An Old Man's Dream.jpg	An old man's Joys.jpg	An Outspoken Epitaph.jpg	Automations.jpg	Bachelor.jpg
Bad Temper.jpg	Be Careful.jpg	Be Frank and Determined.jpg	Be off with you now.jpg	Be Systematic.jpg
Be True to Thy Trust by WG Walsh.jpg	Beer.jpg	Being Literal as to Widows.jpg	Belle Brittan.jpg	Ben Jonson-Best pleased.jpg
Bottomless Pit.jpg	Bread and Gravy.jpg	British possessions on American continent.jpg	Brought Down A Deluge.jpg	Censure.jpg
Census Report.jpg	Changeable wind.jpg	Child and Mother.jpg	Childhood.jpg	Chronological Table of Events in Ancient History.jpg
Cobbett's Courtship.jpg	Come till America.jpg	Composition Commended.jpg	Control The Passions.jpg	Cost of Paint.jpg
County Rates about 1859.jpg	Courage Ladies.jpg	Cronica.jpg	Cultivate Domestic Peace.jpg	Dark Hours.jpg
Deafness.jpg	Death.jpg	Delta_Weston-super-Mare_1852.jpg	Departed Moments.jpg	Dickens.jpg
Distance Against Time.jpg	Do Animals Reason.jpg	Doctor Quill.jpg	Doctor.jpg	Don't Drink to Drive Away Care.jpg
Dont Fret.jpg	Dress.jpg	Duty's Call by Alline Atherton.jpg	DUTY.jpg	Early Rising.jpg
Economy in a Family.jpg	Elements of Grammer in Rhyme.jpg	Elevation of London Above the Sea.jpg	Esperance.jpg	European Churches.jpg
Explaining to the Children.jpg	Extempore Preaching.jpg	Extraordinary Suicide.jpg	Facetious Idle-talk_1.jpg	Facetious Idle-talk_2.jpg
Female Tact.jpg	Fighting upon his own Look.jpg	Fond illusions by JT Watson.jpg	For Ever.jpg	Fragments of Verses by Zeta.jpg
Friendship Self-Love in Disguise.jpg	Friendship.jpg	Friendship2.jpg	Friendship3.jpg	Frightened.jpg
Fulfulment of a Dream.jpg	Gems of Thought.jpg	Gentleman and no Gentleman.jpg	Gentlemen's Hearts.jpg	Get a board.jpg
Go Ahead.jpg	Go and ask my Mother.jpg	God is Love.jpg	Golden Gleanings.jpg	Good Advice to Eveybody.jpg
Good Advice.jpg	Good Company.jpg	Good for Everybody.jpg	Good Night.jpg	Griggs.jpg
Have Faith.jpg	Hearts.jpg	Hogg's Tales.jpg	Hope's Counsel.jpg	Hope.jpg
Household Management.jpg	Household Waste.jpg	How a Distillery was Stopped.jpg	How Men Should Treat Women.jpg	How to Get On.jpg
How to prevent colds.jpg	Human Life.jpg	humour.jpg	I am waiting for Thee.jpg	I Guess you can Come.jpg
I know Thou Hast Gone.jpg	I Love you.jpg	I see I hear.jpg	I Wud Not Die.jpg	If I Die First.jpg
Ike Heard From.jpg	Imagination and Reality.jpg	Improve Your Moment.jpg	In a Bad Box.jpg	Individual vs Joint Action.jpg
Influence of Marriage.jpg	Influence of Temper on Health.jpg	Inhabitants of an Oyster.jpg	Intemperance.jpg	Interesting Statistics.jpg
Jeannie.jpg	Jeremiah The Prophet to Slave-Owning America.jpg	John Adams - second President of the United States.jpg	John Billings of Preaching.jpg	Just a Step Beyond.jpg
Kind Words.jpg	Last Days.jpg	Leigh Hunt.jpg	Let us be Happy.jpg	Let's up and be doing.jpg
Life.jpg	Lightly Spoken.jpg	List of Principal Events in Modern History-1.jpg	Little Johnny.jpg	Live for a Purpose.jpg
Logic.jpg	Look Here Jim.jpg	Looking on the Bright Side.jpg	Lover.jpg	Loviness.jpg
Low Water.jpg	Man and His Attributes.jpg	Man His Brother's Keeper.jpg	Matremonial Breeze.jpg	Men Who Mistook Their Calling.jpg
Method and Love of Home.jpg	Mistake our vocation.jpg	Moses.jpg	Mothers of our land.jpg	Musical Anecdotes by WM O Fiske.jpg
My Mother Don't.jpg	Near Home - Henry Ward Beecher.jpg	Never Despair.jpg	New Gentlemen.jpg	Nice Medium.jpg
No More.jpg	No Mother.jpg	Occupation.jpg	Oh What if the prospect be clouded.jpg	Old Oak Tree.jpg
One of the Love Affairs that are Funny, but.jpg	One-Tenth of a Second from Death.jpg	Onward Press by Cornelia M Dowling.jpg	Pat and the Thermometer.jpg	Personal Devotion.jpg
Phrenologist.jpg	Pianoforte.jpg	Pollie Says.jpg	Population of the World's Dead.jpg	Porson.jpg
Praise God.jpg	Pride and Vanity.jpg	Pride of Ancestry.jpg	Proverbs.jpg	Public Wants.jpg
Pull Adam - Pull.jpg	Punch.jpg	Pungent Retort.jpg	Purse-Pride.jpg	Quick in Her Application.jpg
Races and Religions.jpg	Railway Trains.jpg	Recipe for matremonial happiness.jpg	Regulations.jpg	Relationship or blood.jpg
Religion in Amusements.jpg	remark.jpg	Remarkable Works of Human Labour.jpg	Restoration of a Drowned Person.jpg	Rev E Chapin.jpg
Scene in a Wetern Theatre.jpg	Secrets of Comfort.jpg	Seeking contributions.jpg	Selby.jpg	She died in beauty.jpg
short_1.jpg	Sleep.jpg	Sleep2.jpg	Small Talk.jpg	Some Deem it but a little thing.jpg
Stanzas.jpg	Statistics of Human Life.jpg	Statistics of Muscular Power.jpg	Stats on Bible.jpg	Stick to the light.jpg
Strength of the Tiger.jpg	sunday drinking.jpg	Tact in Begging.jpg	Tea and tobacco.jpg	The Antiquity of Ladies Hoops.jpg
The Body Advenged.jpg	The Bonnet.jpg	The Captains Pudding.jpg	The common fluency of speech.jpg	The Coquette.jpg
The Deacon at Church after Hard Work.jpg	The Death of Space.jpg	The Deity of Infancy.jpg	The Dog That Had No Friends.jpg	The False Step.jpg
The Geography of the Moon.jpg	The Girls we love the best.jpg	The Godlen Calf.jpg	The Gospel of Nature.jpg	The greater the difficulty.jpg
The Head.jpg	The History of Life.jpg	The Home of Taste.jpg	The Law of Kindness.jpg	The Lion's Roar.jpg
The Lord's Prayer.jpg	The Managing Housewife pic2.jpg	The moon.jpg	The Necessity of Recreation.jpg	The Old Maid.jpg
The Pauper's Burial.jpg	The Poor Man's Hymn.jpg	The Power of a Wife.jpg	The Reflections of a Good Man.jpg	The Rich and Poor.jpg
The Rival Doctors.jpg	The Soul.jpg	The Spreading of a Report.jpg	The Sweet uses of Adversity.jpg	The Three Duties.jpg
The True Woman - Charles Dickens.jpg	The Type of Humanity.jpg	The use of Tears.jpg	The Vanity of Dress.jpg	The Widower's Dream.jpg
The Wife.jpg	The World Contains Warm Hearts and True.jpg	Theory of Life - Professor Faraday.jpg	Three Good Ships.jpg	Tov Wi Hearts Nae Langer.jpg
Truth and Idleness.jpg	Two Strings to a Bow.jpg	UK Government Income & Expenditure in 1865.jpg	Unhappy Marriages Among Men of Genius.jpg	Unmistakeable Evidence.jpg
Useful Hints.jpg	Varieties.jpg	Veronica.jpg	Virtue and happiness.jpg	Virtue.jpg
Water boil.jpg	Water.jpg	Way to get a seat.jpg	Well and Simply Said.jpg	What do you think.jpg
What is a Woman.jpg	What is that we take from Earth.jpg	What Our Parlours Should Be.jpg	What the Chinese have done and are doing.jpg	What the Steam Engine Does.jpg
When I goes a shopping.jpg	when thou wakest.jpg	Who is my neighbour.jpg	Whom to Marry.jpg	Why Do I Love Thee.jpg
Why so any children die.jpg	Wonders of Nature.jpg	Wonders of the Universe.jpg	Words.jpg	Work And Things.jpg
Worldly Wealth.jpg	Young Men.jpg

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