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Vintage: The American West in the 19th Century

24 July 2015 0

Timothy O’Sullivan (1840 – 1882) was official photographer on the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel under Clarence King. The expedition began at Virginia City, Nevada, where he photographed the mines, and worked eastward. His job was to…

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Historic B&W photos of Dublin, Ireland (19th century)

21 July 2015 0

Dublin suffered a period of political and economic decline during the 19th century following the Act of Union of 1800, under which the seat of government was transferred to the Westminster Parliament in London. The city played no major role…

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Milk sellers in Brussels, Belgium in the 19th Century

9 July 2015 0

Collection of historic photographs of Belgian milk sellers in the late 19th Century.

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Historic B&W photos of Naples, Italy (19th century)

6 July 2015 0

After the Expedition of the Thousand led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, which culminated in the controversial Siege of Gaeta, Naples became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 as part of the Italian unification, ending the era of Bourbon rule.…

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Historic B&W photos of Rotterdam, Holland (19th century)

29 June 2015 0

The port of Rotterdam grew slowly but steadily into a port of importance. The greatest spurt of growth, both in port activity and population, followed the completion of the Nieuwe Waterweg in 1872. The city and harbor started to expand…

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World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893

27 June 2015 0

The World’s Columbian Exposition was a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World in 1492. The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a…

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Vintage: Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany in the late 19th Century

18 June 2015 0

The city of Dresden had a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings by Bernardo Bellotto and by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl. Between 1806 and 1918 the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony (which was a part…

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Historic 19th century Cabinet Cards with reverse side (1870s to 1880s)

16 June 2015 0

Collection of historic 19th century Victorian Era Cabinet Cards with reverse side (1870s to 1880s). The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a…

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Historic photos of China from 1889-1891

25 May 2015 0

In the 19th century, the great Chinese Diaspora began. Losses due to emigration were added to by conflicts and catastrophes such as the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, in which between 9 and 13 million people died. In 1898, the…

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Grant Park in Chicago

25 March 2015 0

The city officially designated the land as a park on April 29, 1844, naming it Lake Park. When the Illinois Central Railroad was built into Chicago in 1852, it was permitted to lay track along the lakefront on a causeway…

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Vintage photos of Moscow in the past (19th century)

17 March 2015 0

The city of Moscow gradually grew around the Moscow Kremlin, beginning in the 14th century. It was the capital of Great Russia, also known as the Grand Duchy of Moscow (or Muscovy), from 1340 to 1547 and then the Tsardom…

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Warsaw in the late 19th Century

3 March 2015 0

Warsaw flourished in the late 19th century under Mayor Sokrates Starynkiewicz (1875–92), a Russian-born general appointed by Tsar Alexander III. Under Starynkiewicz Warsaw saw its first water and sewer systems designed and built by the English engineer William Lindley and…

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Philip Davies: Panoramas of Lost London

21 February 2015 0

Nearly 300 spectacular photographs of Londons lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945. Philip Davies Panoramas of Lost…

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The only surviving images of veterans of Napoleonic Wars taken in 1858

30 January 2015 0

Napoléon Bonaparte’s final defeat was the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Even after his death in 1821, the surviving soldiers of Grande Armée revered his historic leadership. Each year on May 5, the anniversary of Napoléon’s death, the veterans marched…

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