View of Oude Schans , Amsterdam, Holland. The Montelbaanstoren, built in 1512, housed the city's military guard and is part of Amsterdam's old...
Dam Square with the Royal Palace, centre, and Nieuwe Kerk , Amsterdam, Holland. Church mainly rebuilt in Gothic style after a fire in 1645.
Beach scene with children playing and making sandcastles, little boy in sailor suit, bathing machines on left, Holland.
Oude Zyds, the Kolk, Amsterdam, Holland. View of canal in the old Jewish quarter, with flat-bottomed punts or barges on the water.
The opening of the Dutch Rhenish railway at a temporary station in Rotterdam. Original Publication: Illustrated London News
Frans Breuhaus de Groot, Ooster Oudehoofdpoort, view from the Wijnhaven in the direction of the Oude Haven and Haringvliet, cityscape painting art...
Marinus van Raden, Cityscape of Rotterdam: Westnieuwland and Steiger, cityscape painting imagery paint oil paint linen, Oil on canvas. Cityscape...
Cornelis Springer, Dutch, 1817–1891, Dutch Street Scene, c. 1850–55, Oil on panel, 12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in. .
Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek, Dutch school. People by the Boats in Holland. 19th century. Oil on canvas.
Warship at Anchor in a Rough Sea', circirca 1660-circirca 1708. Painting in Apsley House, London, bought by the 2nd Duke of Wellington from...
Bridge in Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Alexis Gaudin et Frère, France, 1858 - 1860, paper, photographic paper, cardboard, albumen print, h 70 mm × w 143 mm.
Fugitive slaves fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the 'Underground Railroad', 1850-1851. The Underground Railroad was a secret organisation...
Life in Philadelphia. Plate 11 / C. Edward Clay, 1799-1857, engraver. Etching, hand-coloured Print shows an African American woman, wearing a very...
Engraving depicting African American enslaved workers picking cotton from the fields of a plantation, USA, circa 1830-1880.
Group of women and a man, presumably enslaved, sit on the steps of the Florida Club, St. Augustine, Florida, mid 19th Century. A white woman,...
Street car in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, advertising tours of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Laurel Hill, Schuylkill and Wissahickon Falls, Girard...
Illustration of enslaved people working on a sugar plantation in the Southern United States, Mid-19th Century.
View of 'Les Halles', the wholesale marketplace in the 1er arrondissement of Paris, 1859. The market was demolished in 1971.
Carriages line the streets bordering Portsmouth Plaza, San Francisco's first town square and the hub of city until the 1860s. Here, on May 12 Sam...
Engraved scene along Chestnut Street with a view of the State House, or Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1850.
Group of men and boys, presumably enslaved, sit on and around a pile of barrels on a pier or dock, Jacksonville, Florida, mid 19th Century.
Pen grinding room, Hanks, Wells & Co's factory, Birmingham, West Midlands, 1851. More than 50 women sit at individual grindstones finishing metal pen...
Methodists gather for prayer and social concourse at the Red Lion Camp Meeting, just south of Wilmington, Delaware. Original Artwork: Engraving by P....
Engraved view along the Boulevard des Italiens, one of the four grand boulevard's in Paris, bustling with the activity of horse-drawn carts and...
Irish emmigrants sailing to the US during the Great Famine , 1850. Original publication - Illustrated London News - pub 6th July 1850.
Theatre performance in the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden, London, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume...
The trendy confectioner, drawing by Belin, engraving by A Rousseau, illustration from Musee Francais-Anglais, n 21, September 1856.
The actors' foyer at the Comedie Francaise, Paris, France, drawing by Jules Pelcocq, illustration from Le Musee Francais, n 47, November 1858.
Masked Ball at the Casino of Rue Cadet, Paris, France, illustration from the Journal pour rire, Journal Amusant, No 169, March 26, 1859.
The cashmere stores in the Louvre warehouses, Paris, France, illustration from the Journal pour rire, Journal Amusant, No 126, May 29, 1858.
Edwin Laurentine Drake aka Colonel Drake, , discovering oil in 1858 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Whilst working for the Seneca Oil Company....
Wagons and cable cars crowd through Montgomery Street. Montgomery Street sits roughly on the former shoreline of Yerba Buena Cove, which was filled...