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[Medieval book collector sitting at desk, reading]
Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Das Narrenschiff. Basel : Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 11 Feb. (Fastnacht) 1494. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard... More
Armor - Armor - Designing armor for American Soldiers. In the Armorer'...
Photographer: Publishers Photo Ser. Armor - Armor
Armor - Armor - Designing armor for American Soldiers. In the Armorer'...
Photographer: Publishers Photo Ser. Armor - Armor
In the House of representatives, Feb. 14, 1776. Whereas many constable...
Copies 2 and 3 are positive photostats.; Copy 1 formerly numbered as Portfolio 39, Folder 1ha. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 39, Folder 1ha. Available also through the Library of Congress web sit... More
Jean Honoré Fragonard - The Tax Collectors (Les Traitants)
Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of representatives, March ...
Not in Evans.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 43, Folder 13.
Thomas Jefferson, May 1793, Memorandum on Customs Collectors
Memorandum on Customs Collectors
We publish this evening, an extra for the purpose of announcing early ...
On verso: 1827 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 192, Folder 26a.
Erie & junction canal directory; containing a list of the principal pl...
On verso: Erie Junction Canal Directory, Filed April 7, 1828. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
Loco Foco scramble for collectors licenses
Democratic patronage in New York is parodied in a scene of Loco Foco drivers or carmen rushing for cab licenses distributed by recently appointed collector of the port, Democratic stalwart Jesse Hoyt. Hoyt repl... More
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The following additional instructions in reference to income tax will ...
Printed Ephemera -Confederate States of America. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2... More
American Card Album, containing sets of collectors cards
Louis Prang & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts)
King William's Temple at Kew Gardens (detail from stereoview)
I'm very excited by this find as it's the only 19th century image of King William's Temple ( http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/garden-attractions-A-Z/king-williams-temple.htm ) that I have ever seen...This ... More
On board "Lady Canning", floating church, Calcutta, India, c. 1875. E...
I'd be fascinated to hear if anyone has any further information about this floating church in Calcutta harbour, now dated to late 1875 or early 1876...Thanks to a little research we now know that the mother men... More
The Connoissevr, a magazine for collectors
lithographie
Fowey, Cornwall - estuary with ships of all sizes, late 1800s?
A lovely original print, I suspect dating from the 1880s or 90s (all thoughts welcome)
Palm House Pond and Museum No1 at Kew Gardens (detail from stereoview)
A fairly standard view taken from the south end of the Palm House terrace - a view that has barely changed today...This is one of two stereoviews bought from an eBay seller in the US. They are in exceptional c... More
Identified! Bampton, Oxfordshire
A copy of another image in my stream (but reversed to show the correct view), identified as Bampton, Oxfordshire
Vintage Railway Album: 6 (detail) - Harrow and Wealdstone station
One of 24 images from a unique and exceptional album ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatsthatpicture/sets/72157624218631585/ ) dating from c. 1900 containing images of early steam locomotives. See the set des... More
Anchor Hotel and Ship & Plough Hotel, Kingsbridge, Devon c. 1890
This is a very early amateur photograph, measuring just 4" x 2.75", and is one of several in a small album I acquired a few years ago. Other images (to follow) depict the building of the Kingsbridge branch line... More
The collecting mania F. Opper
Illustration shows scenes of collectors, especially one with a large mask collection. Title from item. Illus. in: Puck, v. 29, no. 736 (1891 April. 8), p. 125, back cover.
The Smithy, Manafon, Wales. Montgomeryshire by-election, 1894
Update Jan 2015: I hope no-one minds me changing the upload date on this one so that it appears at the top of my photostream. I have just replaced the original scan with a new 176 megapixel, 2,400 dpi scan of t... More
George Ticknor
A founding trustee of the Boston Public Library, George Ticknor (1791-1871) was a Harvard professor of Spanish and French and author of the monumental three-volume History of Spanish Literature (1849), his pion... More
Lewis Tomalin (founder of Jaeger) and family at 20 Cambalt Road, Putne...
The more I look at this image the more I love it. Dated from the children's estimated ages as c. 1895, it strikes me as being quite unusually relaxed for the era, and of exceptional quality...There is no indic... More
Robert William Melbourne, Burton, September 1896
Identified on the reverse (see below) as Robert William Melbourne and dated September 1896, which would give a d.o.b. for Robert of c. 1892...From the studio of George Renwick, Burton on Trent..This image, and ... More
Vintage Railway Album: 6 - LNWR Humphrey Davy at Harrow & Wealdstone s...
Image number: 6.Locomotive name: Humphrey Davy.Locomotive number: 945.Locomotive class: Improved Precedent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNWR_Improved_Precedent_Class ) .Railway company: LNWR.Description/note... More
Vintage Railway Album: 7 - Prince Leopold at Harrow & Wealdstone stati...
Image number: 7.Locomotive name: Prince Leopold.Locomotive number: 857.Locomotive class: Improved Precedent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNWR_Improved_Precedent_Class ) .Railway company: LNWR.Description/note... More