Historic Illustrations and Documents

Various historical illustrations and printed materials, including drawings, event handkerchiefs, and engraved texts from different centuries, showcasing early graphic arts.

Woman reading menu | Library of Congress

Photo collection Government information service. Drawing / 1835. Undated

Event handkerchief 1819 C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie). Event handkerchief 221526

Woman reading menu | Library of Congress

De la maniere de graver a l'eauforte et au burin, et de la gravure in maniere noire. .Nouvelle édition augmentée 1758 Abraham Bosse French. De la maniere de graver a l'eauforte et au burin, et de la gravure in maniere noire. .Nouvelle édition augmentée. Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/04-1676 Paris). 1758. Published by Charles Antoine Jombert (French, 1712-1784) , Paris. Books

Image of the funeral board of Jacoba van Paris van Zuijdoort (died December 8, 1640) in the Buurkerk in Utrecht.

Bakers of York from Ordinances of their Guild; Black and White Illustration;

Relics of the Past. Manuscript treaty between Henry VII; and the Abbot and convent of Westminster.

Device in India after the volcanic eruption of 1883, 1883 print Need in the Dutch East Indies after the volcanic eruption of the Krakatau in 1883. Plate appeared at the Weekblad de Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 36, 1883. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: The Hague paper eruption (of volcano) Krakatau

Photo collection Government information service. Scheepstimmerman. undated

Plan by Warberg in Hallandt

Marktscène, 1925 Page 23 from a sketchbook with 67 sheets. Indonesia paper. pencil street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage). market. Asiatic races and peoples

Censorship of Press in France Date: 1818

Ticker-tape machine at the stock exchange. 1881.

Showing the front page of The Sphere's commemorative issue, dedicated to the funeral of Queen Victoria. 1901

A housewife arranges her linen in her linen cupboard Date: 1921

Proper Grip, hands over or above. From an 1887 Golf Book

In the cell, Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York City, circa 1892

Photo collection Government information service. Allegorical superstructure MO / engraving. undated

Cell door, 1842. Metal door with hatch for food, Pentonville Prison, London, completed in 1842. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.

satirical cartoon concerning protests against urban development in Hampstead, London; 1888. The Metropolitan Board of Works (represented in the cartoon) was the principal instrument of London-wide government from December 1855 until the establishment of the London County Council in March 1889. Its principal responsibility was to provide infrastructure to cope with London's rapid growth

Method for opening a globe stopper on a glass mineral water bottle. Hope Glass works, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England 1887

George du Maurier's vision of the uses to which the telephone would put. Bell transmitted the first telephone message in 1876.

Free labor and slave labor. Great race between the North and the South.. Illustrations. 1843. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Antislavery movements, Slavery , United States

La Grande Ville: Nouveau Tableau de Paris Comique, Critique et Philosophique, by Paul de Kock. Paris (Maresq)1844. 2 vols. 1844 Written by Charles-Paul de Kock French. La Grande Ville: Nouveau Tableau de Paris Comique, Critique et Philosophique, by Paul de Kock. Paris (Maresq)1844. 2 vols. 337047

An engraving depicting the use of rollers to apply ink to type in a frame. Dated 19th century

Photo collection Government information service. Engraving 1700. Undated

ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS Roman philosopher calculating with figures while Pythagoras uses counters Date: 480 - 524

Prensa de imprenta moderna con tipos móviles inventada por el orebre alemán Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468), construída en Estrasburgo en 1441. Grabado de 1900.

Photographic Reproduction of Sketches. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Plate showing printing workshop, operation of the case and composing stick. Engraving from Denis Diderot, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, L'Encyclopedie, 1751-1757. Entitled Imprimerie en Lettres (Letterpress Printing).

Liberty is not anarchy / Th. Nast. | Library of Congress

The Cadenza, Vol. 11, no. 4. text. Periodicals. 1904-12. Music Division. Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin

Model of a fish-ladder for salmon to ascend milldams and weirs, on view at the office of the Inspector of Fisheries, in Whitehall, 1864. 'Mr. Ffennell, the Inspector of Fisheries for England, has now for exhibition, at his office, 8 Richmond-terrace, Whitehall, a model of a fish-ladder, which is represented in our Engraving. The author of this valuable contrivance was the late Mr. Smith, of Deanston. Its object is to enable salmon and other fish to ascend milldams, and similar impediments, in their course up the rivers to their spawning-grounds; while the waste water is, by this apparatus, so

No.2 A table of Hieroglyphics, found at Axum 1771. Illustrations. 1805. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Nile River, Egypt

Illustration showing facsimile of the manuscript for 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

Dessus de Porte "From" Huize Zoudenbalch "moved in the R.C. orphanage a.d. Maliesingel.

Cartoon depicting notes from the Diary of a City Waiter. Dated 19th century

Engraving of a bar of gold, a small slab weighing sixteen pounds, worth about 800 in 1845. Date: 1845

A Solemn League and Covenant ... for defence of religion in England, Scotland and Ireland. The Covenanters opposed the imposition of High Anglican rites and suppression of their Calvinist protestantism. Illustration by Willaim Hollar, 1643.

Franz Karl Brockmann -, actor, stage poet, Johann Hieronymus Delete Kohl -, publishing house

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO PORTSMOUTH

An engraving depicting a horizontal sundial. This type of dial was used both as a static "garden" sundial or, in a smaller version, as a portable pocket dial. Dated 19th century

The days of July 1868. (registered title) | News. (Title of the whole)

Anefo photo collection. H.M. for lampscapes. April 2, 1948

Medallion with assignats, revolutionary period (TF)

Cartoon depicting the first act of the Provisional Government in Turkestan was the decree of March 18, 1917 an amnesty for the executioners of the Kyrgyz uprising of 1916. Jailbirds of Kerensky was the term used during the Russian Revolution for people who were released from Russian jails on amnesty. A total of three amnesties were enacted by Russian Minister of Justice Alexander Kerensky in 1917.

Bookplate of Józef Gwalbert Pawikowski (1793 1852) Kiślisi Ski, Kajetan Wincenty (1808 1849)

The Abolitionists - The first martyr. The Reverend Elijah Parish Lovejoy was the editor of the Alton Observer. In an editorial dated 20 July 1837 he stated 'Abolitionists hold that all men are born free and equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. After this was published he was shot in his newspaper office and his press dumped in the Mississippi by a drunken 'posse'.

El Testerazo del Diablo. Juguete Pastoril en un Acto The Bump on the Devil's Head. A pastoral skit in one act.. Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913. Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, 1852-1917. text. Prints, chapbooks, Illustrations, Pamphlets, Ephemera. 1890 - 1920. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Politics and culture , Mexico, Popular culture , Mexico

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 child labor mines. undated

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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 shaft well. undated

Receipt for a Royal Exchange Assurance Fire Policy. Dated 18th century

'The Home Rule debate in the House of Commons, Mr Storey persuasive', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886".

Cartoon - The Emergency Ration Rostap (1866-1949)

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Van der Spiegel, recordings in Institute for Social History. October 18, 1972

This Man Walked From New York to Governor's Island. Illustrations. 1898-01-16. General Research Division. New York (N.Y.)

Trades in Regency England: Turnery, broom-maker and paper making. Turner working on a wheel-driven lathe in a workshop in Tunbridge 22, broom-maker selling his wares door-to-door in Kent 23, and workers pressing and drying rag paper in Maidstone 24. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.

Portada del cuaderno ilustrado nº X del 12 de julio de 1919 de la "Història Popular de Catalunya", de Alfons Roure, distribuido por la Librería Varia, de la calle Petritxol de Barcelona.

A slave plantation in Middletown, Connecticut, issued in 1834 by publisher E. Hunt, depicting the slave trade and plantations in the United States

Detailed view of the Gower-bell telephone, dated 1892. Created by Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison.

Cartoon - If Togo had been Educated in the U.S.A. Rostap (1866-1949)

American Furniture Exhibit. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Royal Artist's Works On View: The Duke of York's picture of a pump.Drawings made by members of the Royal family when children are on view at a London Art Gallery They include pictures by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Princess Alice, and others. November 12, 1934. (Photo by The Associated Press of Great Britain Ltd.).

NUEVA CRONICA Y BUEN GOBIERNO - 1613/1615 - MANUSCRITO INDIO - REGIDORES. Author: HUAMAN POMA DE AYALA FELIPE. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Cadenza, Vol. 9, no. 6. text. Periodicals. 1903-02. Music Division. Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin

The times - taken from an original character which appear'd at the masquerade at Lincoln, Decr. the 21st 1769. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 650. United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783. , Politics & government,England,1760-1770. , Government policy,England,1760-1770. , International relations,England,1760-1770. , Clothing & dress,England,1760-1770.

Notes on Labour in Central Africa.

Pump in Ray-Street, Clerkenwell-Green, supplied from the Clerks' Well, London, 1857. 'A relic of old Clerkenwell has just been removed...it is associated with, and is the representative of, the patronymic spring from which the parish is named - i.e. the well, around which the parish clerks, or clerken, were wont to assemble to act Scripture plays...The inscription-board reads: "A.D. 1800. Willm. Bound, Joseph Bird - Churchwardens. For the better accommodation of the neighbourhood this pump was removed to the spot where it now stands. The spring by which it is supplied is situated four

TRES TIPOS DE SPINETTINA.

Two thousand leagues across south america. Bleeding, vintage engraving. Two thousand leagues across south america. Bleeding, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659931

Rugles, Eure. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Government information service. drawing. undated

Manuscript book of prayers presented to Cardinal Wolsey to Henry VIII, King of England

Photo collection Government information service. October 18, 1935 / 47th volume / number 34. Undated

'I was attended by my master's sister, Miss Patty.'. Illustrations. 1879. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883, Nursing, Slaveholders , United States

Japan in the late Middle Ages, visiting card writer, typist, illustration from 1870 / Japan im späten Mittelalter, Visitenkartenschreiber, Schreibkraft, Illustration aus 1870, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

An advert for Pear's soap. Dated 19th century

Franco-U.S. Historical Documents. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

LLUIS TERRI. Author: MANUEL CUYAS.

España. Siglo XIX. Comercio ambulante. Vendedor de navajas, tijeras, ligas y tirantes. Grabado de 1940.

Calendrier perpetuel de M. A. Gouauit. 1885. A perpetual calendar is a calendar valid for many years; usually designed to allow the calculation of the day of the week for a given date in the future

Lost hundred meters underground. The paper in question contained only a few lines, vintage engraving. Lost hundred meters underground. The paper in question contained only a few lines, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, 1879-80. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656767

Image of clichés of the Utrechtsch Provincial and Stedelijk Dagblad (Electric printing company L. E. Bosch and Zoon) (Korte Nieuwstraat 5) in Utrecht.

"The messroom will drink Isabella Thorpe for a fortnight". Date: First published: 1818

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. reproductions, dictation, courses, tools. undated

The British Constitution 1819 - HO 42/184 f33 HO 42/184 f33

Basement; Horseshoe, w Adys Aw (1866-1895); 1885 (1885-00-00-1885-00-00);Alcohol, urban poor, keys, unknown (provenance), basements, workers, generic types, generic types - city

Prisoner in his cell, Moabit Prison, Berlin, Germany, around 1880 / Gefangener in seiner Zelle, Gefängnis Moabit, Berlin, Deutschland, um 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

John E. Tygert & Co., 42 S. Delaware Ave., Philadelphia. And Smyrna, Delaware.. John E. Tygert & Co., 42 S. Delaware Ave., Philadelphia. And Smyrna, Delaware.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. reproductions, forestry, images, texts. undated

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. reproductions, dictation, courses, tools. undated

Reproduction Rue Francois Ler. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Transmitter used by the Chicago Police telephone system 1882

MANO IZQDA DE NAPOLEON TRAZADA POR MARIE-ANNE LE NORMAND,CARTOMANTICA.

Opening chapter of "Alice in wonderland" in Carroll´s own handwriting. LEWIS CARROLL.

Tiko le négrillon, 1702, Paris, Publisher, Librairie de Paris, Slaves, Africa

Berliner's central communtator, based on Schweitzer's apparatus used to serve 25 telephone subscribers. Dated 1890

A convict, in his cell, oakum- picking. Date: 1873

Advert circa 1900 for Van Houten drinking chocolate

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