Civil rights march on Washington, DC, USA. Civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr, surrounded by crowds carrying signs. 28 August 1968. Photographer: Warren K Leffler.
The Journey on the Moon' a snow ballet at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 9 April 1892. France, Enterainment, Dance
Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801) Scottish soldier. General leading successful Anglo-Turkish force against French at Aboukir Bay (Alexandria) 21 March 1801. Abercromby, mortally wounded, being helped from his horse. Copperplate engraving London 1833
Michel Adanson (1727-1806) French botanist and naturalist; early exponent of classification of plants by natural orders; pre-Linnaeus. Engraving published c1880.
Jean le Rond D'Alembert (1717-1783) French philosopher, mathematician and encyclopedist. [18th century]. Collaborated with Denis Diderot (1713-1784) on the Encyclopedie of which he was scientific editor until 1758 and for which he wrote the Discours Preliminaire declaring the philosophy of the French Enlightenment. Engraving by LJ Cathelin (1738-1804) after CN Cochin (1715-1790).
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Strasbourg Cathedral during the final bombardment of the city, 1870. From The Graphic (London, 15 October 1870). Wood engraving.
World War I - 1914-1918. After conscription in 1916, British women took over many civilian jobs. Women resurfacing a city street in Westminster, London. Photograph.
London Board School, Denmark Terrace, Islington: Waiting for soup at dinner time. From The Graphic London 7 December 1889. This soup was probably the most nourishing meal in the day for these children. Wood engraving.
Scene at a railway station, on the eve of the 1881 census, depicting people of a certain age who have resolved to escape the census paper by spending the night travelling.
The Trial of a Witch, 17th century Puritan America. Illustration for the play Giles Corey, Yeoman by Mary E Wilkins (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman), American novelist and playwright. Wood engraving 1892.
Mrs Claire Cumberbatch, of 1303 Dean Street, leader of the Bedford-Stuyvesant group protesting alleged segregated school, leads the oath of allegiance to the flag in a class of African Americans, 12 September 1958. Photographer: Dick DeMarsico.
School integration conflicts, Little Rock, Arkansas. Photograph shows an African American boy walking through a crowd of white boys during a period of violence related to school integration. 1957. Thomas J O'Halloran, photographer.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) British writer and cleric. Christian Socialist: Muscular Christianity. Believed in possibility of reconciling science and religion. Kingsley, when rector at Eversleigh, near Aldershot, helping fight a heath fire while curate to finished service in church.
aviation; aeroplane; airplane; aircraft; plane; scanned transparency; Grumman E-2C Hawkeye; c/n A52-119; USN; United States Navy; VAW-124; USS John F. Kennedy; aircraft carrier; at Yeovilton; EGDY, E2C, E2, E-2
First Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence. Passed by Congress in Philadelphia, 2 July, 1776, adopted on 4 July. Engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1880. Engraving.
Canada, Ontario, Toronto, College Street, abandoned bicycle, repainted, "The Good Bike Project", pastel pink, civic disobedience, symbol, protest, street art,
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Battle of Sedan, l September 1870. Village of Bazeilles in flames (centre), River Meuse, centre right, Sedan out of picture to right. Faubourg de Balan, centre foreground. French troops drawn up left and centre to resist Prussian force who have crossed bridge behind trees on centre left. From The Graphic, London, 24 September 1870.
School integration. Barnard School, Washington, D.C. Line of African American and white schoolgirls standing in a classroom while boys sit behind them: 27 May 1955. Photographer: Thomas J O'Halloran.
Jetty and boat black and white b&w B&W mono monochrome duotone Derwent water Lake District Cumbria Beauty In Nature Tranquil Scene Nature Idyllic Scenics Outdoors Feature Holidays Tourists Tourism Lifestyle Leisure Summer British travel picturesque traditional classical classic WHOBNW
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish playwright and novelist; Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street among his best known works. House at Kirriemuir, Angus, where Barrie was born and which features in autobiographical novel A Window
Albertus Magnus (c1200-1280) Italian Dominican friar called 'Doctor Universalis'. Bishop of Ratisbon, 1260. Melded theology and Aristotelianism. From engraving by Th. De Bry (1528-98)
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) 747-814, king of the Franks; crowned Christian emperor of the west in St Peter's, Rome on Christmas Day 800. Copperplate engraving.
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish playwright and novelist. Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street among his best known works. Photograph published London c1890
World War I 1914-1918: French villagers returning to their devastated village after the retreat of German forces. From Le Flambeau, Paris, September 1915. Women Children Ruins
?Construction of the Panama Canal: Spanish labourers at work in the Culebra Cut (Gaillard Cut) . A loaded steam train hauls spoil from the site. The canal, a great feat of civil engineering, was opened in 1914. Photograph.
Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York: Putting wire wrapping around the suspension cables, each of which was made up of more than 5,000 separate strands. Wood engraving published 1883, the year the bridge opened. Designed and built by JA Roebling and his son WA Roebling.
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician and astronomer. His five volume Mecanique celeste 1799-1825 was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's Principia. 18th century Engraving.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Here he is facing the Inquisition, who challenged his claim that the earth moves, thus contradicting the theories of Aristotle. From Vies des Savants Illustres by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1870). Engraving.
William Tyndale, being burnt at the stake in Belgium, cries Lord, open the king of England's eies. William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindal or Tyndall; pronounced /?t?nd?l/) (c. 1494 ? 1536) was a 16th century scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life
?President Lincoln at the White House in 1861 with Sojourner Truth, African American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree (1797-1883) she escaped to freedom in 1826. Changed her name in 1843.
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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) American soldier and 12th President of the United States 1849-1850. Lithograph of General Taylor surrounded by vignettes of his battles.
Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1864) and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), left, making measurements at a height of 4,000 metres during their balloon ascent of 20 August 1804. This was the first balloon ascent made specifically for scientific purposes. From Louis Figuier Les Merveilles de la Science, Paris 1870
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Russian batteries repelling the second Japanese attempt under Admiral Togo to block Port Arthur by sinking merchant ships, March 1904.
Pan-American Exhibition at Buffalo. It was in the Temple of Music that William McKinley, 25th president of USA, was shot by Leon Czolgosz on 6 Sept 1901.
Trial of Charles I, January 1649. Charles ! (1600-1649) king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1625 on trial by Parliament in Westminster Hall, London. Charles, as an absolute monarch, did not accept the authority of the court and his refusal to plead was construed as a plea of guilty.
Blowing up Flood Rock, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour, and presented a hazard to smaller ones. Dynamite was the explosive used. From The Illustrated London News, October 1885. Wood engraving.
Mikhail Vasilevich Alexeiev (1857-1918) Russian soldier. Chief of the Russian Imperial General Staff 1915. Organised anti-Bolshevik volunteer army after 1917 Revolution. Chromolithograph.
Victorian; engraving; Window Gardening; London Court; wooden; window-sill; box; plant container; Fetter lane; flower pots; ancient Architecture; city of London; Westminster; gas light; shops; hoop and stick
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Window Gardening in a busy, narrow, ancient, teeming Victorian London Court.
First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: Rescue of British prisoners from the Afghans after the defeat of Akbar Khan, April 1842. General Robert Sale united with his wife and daughter. Wood engraving c. 1885
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