Major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, London, England

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Elias Ashmole: a house identified as his in London. Engraving after R. B. Schnebbelie, 1815.

Mr. Bernard Cavanagh, the Fasting Man ... will receive company at his rooms, 263, Strand ...  : His first long fast commenced at the death of his mother, which took place nearly six years ago, since that period he has not tasted any food whatever ...

Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...

The Savoy Hotel : 1925-1926 New Year's Eve : menu.

The Terrence Higgins Trust present a unique staged reading of Safe Sex by Harvey Fierstein : at the Vaudeville Theatre, The Strand WC2, Sunday 16th December at 7.30 pm : includes High Profilactors!.

Last week but one, Wednesday, March 15, and Friday, 17, 1826 : M. Henry will have the honour of repeating his third annual entertainment of "Table Talk", under the title of Odd Sayings and Queer Doings, introductory of his novel and astonishing illusions metamorphoses, prestiges, &c. &c.

Ancient Roman women bathing in a public bath in London. Coloured drawing by F. Matania, 1922.

Just arrived, and may be seen in the Commodious Rooms, 287 Strand : Mrs. Butcher, the celebrated Yorkshire married dwarf : the smallest lady and the greatest wonder of the present age.

Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.

A newly discovered animal! : The bonassus from the Apalachian mountains of America, is seventeen months old, and five feet ten inches high ... to be seen at 287, Strand between St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Clement's churches, aslo with an entrance at 41, Holywell-Street ...

Mr. Gardner, the hypnologist : discoverer of the system of producing sound and refreshing sleep at will, without the aid of medicine, animal magnetism, or anything connected with them.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 6, June 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

People walking along the Strand in London holding umbrellas and carrying luggage, leading to accidents and commotion in the street. Etching by J. Baker, ca. 1819.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 3, March 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

A bath-house, or bagnio, near the river Thames, London: steps and brickwork. Halftone.

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Strand, The (London, England)

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Mr. Gardner, the hypnologist : discoverer of the system of producing sound and refreshing sleep at will, without the aid of medicine, animal magnetism, or anything connected with them.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 6, June 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

People walking along the Strand in London holding umbrellas and carrying luggage, leading to accidents and commotion in the street. Etching by J. Baker, ca. 1819.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 3, March 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

A bath-house, or bagnio, near the river Thames, London: steps and brickwork. Halftone.

Strand, The (London, England)

Images from the collections

Images referencing Strand, The (London, England)

Works from the collections

Mr. Gardner, the hypnologist : discoverer of the system of producing sound and refreshing sleep at will, without the aid of medicine, animal magnetism, or anything connected with them.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 6, June 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

People walking along the Strand in London holding umbrellas and carrying luggage, leading to accidents and commotion in the street. Etching by J. Baker, ca. 1819.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 3, March 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

A bath-house, or bagnio, near the river Thames, London: steps and brickwork. Halftone.

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