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Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Latin

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Sending you a carload of grapefruit

The orange, a native of Asiatic countries, was brought to America by the Spaniards in the 16th century. The blossoms are exquisitely fragrant with delicate white petals. A tree in all its golden glory of ripene... More

Cries of London, No. 8 : Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns

A decent woman, wearing a white apron, and with a cloth over her basket, is supplying a patroness with a plateful of hot cross buns. A pretty woman, in a neat morning dress, is buying buns, and her children by ... More

Beschryvinghe der eylanden van Cuba, Hispaniola, Iamaica, S. Ioannis e...

In this composite map of five West Indian islands, separate maps of Cuba and Hispaniola are flanked on the left by insets of Jamaica, Puerto Rico (here called the island of St. John), and St. Margaret (north of... More

Territorio Perugino, Joan Blaeu 1596-1673 - Vintage map, Norman B. Lev...

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Floral decoration - watercolors fore edge painting

Information from book record: Fore-edge painting of roses. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Mappa fluxus et refluxus rationes in isthmo Americano, in Freto Magell...

Regions and Seasons: Mariners have charted the oceans since the late 13th century. However, the 1670 map here is not a general sea chart, but is one of the first thematic maps produced. Thematic maps illustrate... More

Nouus planiglobii terrestris per utrumque polum conspectus

Another variation of the double hemisphere projection was one in which each of the spheres depicted the northern and southern hemispheres, rather than the eastern and western. An example of this polar-oriented ... More

Order to Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall, 1696 July 30

To attend the governor to meet the officers of Col. Gedney's regiment, Boston Courtesy of Boston Public Library

William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 3

A shabby room in Drury Lane. Moll is rising late, attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her... More

Tom Paine's nightly pest, James Gillray

Paine lies asleep on straw on a ramshackle wooden bedstead, covered by his coat. He wears a cap and lies diagonally from left to right, facing the spectator. On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, ... More

The English empire in America, Newfound-land, Canada, Hudsons Bay, &c....

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

The island of St. Christophers, alias St. Kitts

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Document of indenture: Servant: Dean, John. Master: Williams, Joseph: ...

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A map of the British and French settlements in North America

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Study from nature, Thomas Rowlandson

Public domain image of painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his h... More

Wulgar language, Thomas Rowlandson

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor... More

William Hamilton - Shakspeare. Much ado about nothing, act IV, scene I

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Shakspeare. Macbeth, act 1, scene 3 : A heath : Macbeth, Banquo & thre...

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Democratic glory ; Democratic consolations, James Gillray

Two panels from a sequence of eight designs, arranged in two rows, titled "Democracy - or - a Sketch of the Life of Buonaparte." [Left] Democratic Glory. Buonaparte as Grand Consul of France receiving the adula... More

The Corsican tiger at bay, Thomas Rowlandson

The mighty disturber of the peace of Europe is figured under the form of a savage tiger, with his natural head, and on which he wears the enormous military cocked hat with its long plume most indispensable acce... More

Title page of "Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror by G.M. Woodw...

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor... More

The Ship Inn, Thomas Rowlandson

The Ship Inn, Brighton, 1809 Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and w... More

Rural sports. Balloon hunting, Thomas Rowlandson

The balloon is drifting before the wind beyond the control of the aeronaut; a fair voyager is making a terrific descent with a parachute in the midst of a flock of birds ; from the top of a tall tower a gentlem... More

Map of the province of Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Prince Edward...

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Carte physique et routière de la France, de la Suisse, et de l'Italie...

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Great-footed hawk : Falco peregrinus, Gmel. Male, 1. Female, 2. Green ...

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Wild turkey : Meleagris gallopavo, Linn. Female and young. c.1 v.1 pla...

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Carolina parrot : Males, 1. F, 2. Young, 3. Psitacus carolinensis. Pla...

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Chart shewing the tracks across the North Atlantic Ocean of Don Christ...

Like many of the ancestors of today's Floridians, Christopher Columbus voyaged from his home in Europe across the North Atlantic to the West Indies. Sailing under the Spanish flag, he made four separate voyages... More

Hanover Church, Boston, Pendleton's lithography, Boston

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Faneuil Hall, Boston Massachusetts

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Old Trinity Church, Boston Massachusetts

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Charles de Lameth - Public domain portrait engraving

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Antoine Odier, en buste - Engraving, Public domain image

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Robe de Bal - Coiffure Jouenne, fleurs de Nattier

A lady seated facing forward in an armchair, her head 3/4 to the left, her body leaning to the right, one arm on the arm of the chair and a fan in her hand. The other hand is on her chest. Five bouquets of flow... More

Mangrove humming bird : Trochilus mango. Males, 1, 2, 3. Females, 4, 5...

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Copy of letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, New York, to Rufus Anderson,...

A.A. Phelps writes to Rufus Anderson about the article Anderson published in the Missionary Herald, entitled “Extract from a communication of Doct. Hall to the Maryland Colonization Society.” Supplying informat... More

Burrowing owl. Large-headed burrowing owl. Little night owl. Columbian...

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Letter from John Quincy Adams Edgell, West Newbury, to Amos Augustus P...

John Quincy Adams Edgell and G. B. Penny write to the pastor of the Free Church of Boston regarding a meeting to be held in the Centre Church regarding the installation of J. A. Martyn as pastor of the Centre C... More

Le supplice de Tantale - Engraving, Public domain image

Torment of Tantalus Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1840s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edgar Allan Poe, New York, autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, ...

Returns corrected proof of "The Raven." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Horace Greeley, New York, autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 2...

Summarizes his views on the political economists of the United States. Asks for [Robert] Browning's poems, especially Sordello. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Alex. Ch. Henri de Tocqueville - Public domain portrait engraving

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Partial journal entries by Anne Warren Weston, Friday 14 [through] Mon...

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La biblioteque infernale, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Navigation in a tub, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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I see you, Daddy, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Monument to Emperor William I., at Aix la Chapelle, Germany

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Jesus taken from the cross, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Jesus condemned to death, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Puk-wudj-ies Waw-bek. (Pignies Bridge)

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Second Universalist Church, School Street, Boston

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Letter from William P. Powell, Liverpool, [England], to Samuel May, Ap...

Powell speaks strongly against the pro-slavery Americans he has seen on the ships in Liverpool Harbor. He tells May that "American liberty is a mockery, British liberty is an existing fact." Powell likens Frede... More

Parks: View of stone wall and fence in Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain

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Alphonse Legros - Victime de la foudre

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James & Co.'s 25 cent ambrotype establishment

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Beauregard, portrait - Early photography, Public domain image

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Bacon's map of Europe - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Bacon's new sixpenny map of Europe corrected to present date Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The "Old Province House," (now demolished,) the seat of early colonial...

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Red Rose - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Pansies - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

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Roses and Blackberries - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Flowers - Public domain botanical illustration

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Woman Carrying Holly and Package

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Easter Morning - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Oleander Blossoms - Drawing. Public domain image.

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Floral Arrangement with Violets

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Apple-Blossoms and Bees / Cherry Blossoms and Bees

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Portrait of a Woman - Public domain portrait painting

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Artist's Brook - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

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Autumn Wreath - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Hyacinthus Muscari, Kedron Valley

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Marchal Niel Roses - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

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Woman Holding Yellow Bird - Public domain portrait painting

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Cloisonne, Crane - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Kingfisher on a Branch - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

The Baby, Or Going to the Bath - Public domain portrait painting

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Daisies and Autumn Leaves & Ferns

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Giant-able manifest destiny - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ulysses S. Grant as a juggler, juggling rings with the names of potential U. S. possessions and spheres of influence written on them. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Brentford ferry - Drawing. Public domain image.

Near the Brentford ferry. In the foreground, at right, a steep riverbank with vegetation and trees. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A true coppy from an ancient plan of E. Hutchinson's, Esqr. & from Jos...

Map of Plymouth's patent of territory on the Kennebeck, to accompany Mr. Drake's additions to Baylies's memoir of New Plymouth, from an engraving 1753 Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from George Douglas Campbell Argyll, Argyll Lodge, Kensington, ...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, the Duke of Argyll invites him, along with his son and daughter, to have breakfast at their house the following morning. The letter states that if the 10am breakfast is... More

Scotland - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Mt. Hope Home children - Public domain portrait print

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Wheeler & Wilson's High-Arm New Number Nine is the only perfect sewing...

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Peter's Milk-Chocolate travels to Brobdingnac

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Try Ritter's preserved fruits, jellies, jams and fruit butters

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Wear Celluloid collars and cuffs. Advertising - Vintage American Trade...

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Child washing a toy horse. Advertising - Vintage American Trade Card

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Preston & Merrill's Infallible Yeast Powder, unrivaled for strength pu...

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Clark's Mile-End 36 Spool Cotton

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Four clowns practicing. Advertising - Vintage American Trade Card

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The Pet Cigarettes are the best. Made from the most delicately flavore...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More