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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:22:03 GMT -5
Quote:Monument to Goethe - Carl Gustav Carus, 1832
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:22:30 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:23:14 GMT -5
Quote:Pewter box for transporting leeches (19th century).
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:23:28 GMT -5
Quote:An elaborate map of the British Empire in 1886
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:23:51 GMT -5
Quote:Federal Ironclad USS GALENA James River, VA 1862.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:24:18 GMT -5
I love the coloring in these two. Quote:Today in 1862 ~ bloodiest day in US history (Antietam). Based on the victory, Lincoln proclaimed emancipation.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:24:45 GMT -5
Awesome black and white historical pictures. Quote:Arthur Conan Doyle was a judge of the first-ever bodybuilding contest.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:25:02 GMT -5
Quote:Union cavalry escorting Confederate POWs during a prisoner exchange, Cox's Landing, Virginia, c. 1864.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:25:23 GMT -5
Quote:Victorian travelers on the Chamonix Glacier in the Savoy Alps, France, 1867.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:25:49 GMT -5
Quote:Newly discovered, authenticated photo of Jesse James and Robert Ford, circa 1880s.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:26:16 GMT -5
Quote:engraved 18th cent. brass reflecting telescope t.co/kXoVFJuI9z via #AntiqueTelescopes
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:26:34 GMT -5
Quote:Beautiful mid18thC formal garden w/ long water, avenue & vista, set out across road from Farm Hall, Godmanchester
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:27:03 GMT -5
The only real Wizard of Earth! Quote:Nikola Tesla wearing Serbian folk costume, 1880.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:27:23 GMT -5
Quote:19th century Firefighters looked like Darth Vader and C3PO.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:27:43 GMT -5
Quote:World Head of States in 1889.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:28:04 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:28:26 GMT -5
Quote:Indian executioner, 1903
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:28:54 GMT -5
Quote:Interior of a London Pub, 1898.
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:29:17 GMT -5
Quote:The Long Gallery of Hardwick Hall - David Cox, 1811
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Post by El Borak on Jul 2, 2019 13:29:39 GMT -5
Quote:Cannonballs remaining on battlefield after famed "Charge of the Light Brigade".
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 5, 2019 13:49:54 GMT -5
Quote:First iron structure in the world - iron bridge (England, 1779).
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 5, 2019 13:50:17 GMT -5
Quote:A battle scarred Kashmiri gate after the Siege of Delhi during the Indian rebellion of 1857.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 5, 2019 13:50:41 GMT -5
Quote:World Head of States in 1889.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 5, 2019 13:51:22 GMT -5
Quote:During Japanese modernization, they almost dropped Japanese for English in the spirit of total social change.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 5, 2019 13:52:27 GMT -5
Other stuff! Quote:During the Napoleonic wars, British troops referred to French soldiers' mustaches as 'appurtenances of terror'. t.co/uSzkgNJbSC
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 5, 2019 13:52:54 GMT -5
Quote:Ulysses S Grant reading on a porch. Thought to be the last photograph taken of the general before his death, 1885. t.co/1AXEpVyuEO
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