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4.—View on the Grand Canal Venice (1907)

The Grand Canal, Venice; the Canal Grande is the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

View of Oxford Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by H. Toussaint.

Engraved by Davison.

Keywords: views, cities, trees, towers, cityscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-08-12

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton Hill Edinburgh (1912)

“Holyrood Palace stretches across the picture east and west, and is dominated by Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags. The dark turret at the west end of the nearest and north wing contains the private s [...]

Keywords: abbeys, manors, cities, houses, trees, mountains, birds, palaces, views, cityscapes, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2005-07-21

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Slave Market Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

“I must mention, as one of the ex-Kedive’s best actions, the abolition of the slave trade, which was flourishing in Egypt only a short time since. Very few years have gone by since I myself was one of [...]

Keywords: slavery, slaves, people, ancient egypt, streets, cities, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2005-05-31

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Cathedral of S. Mark, Venice South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

“The centre of life in Venice is the Piazza of S. Mark, which is not altogether unlike the Palais Royal in Paris. It is surrounded on three sides by lofty houses, the lowest parts of which are shops o [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, cities, greyscale

Places shown: Venice; Italy

Added: 2006-04-18

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400.—Winchester Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The successor of Henry Beauclerk was also an usurper. The rival pretensions of Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda filled the land with bloodshed and terror for nineteeen years. From the north t [...]

Keywords: views, churches, trees, cities, cityscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

The Church of St. Giles from the Lawnmarket Edinburgh (1912)

“The status of the Duke of Buccleuch shows immediately under the tower of the Cathedral, backed by the modernised west end of the building. Farther down the High Street, to the east, is the Tron Churc [...]

Keywords: churches, streets, cities, cathedrals, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-03

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Widow Mourning Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878)

The book describes a train journey from Cairo to Kafr et Zayat station at Tantah. This illustration appears to depict a woman clad in black and wearing a shawl, citing in amidst the ruins of some anc [...]

Keywords: cities, ruins, people, graveyards, tombs, ancient egypt, greyscale

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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High Street Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again, by their successive owners. Oxford, though not one of the most ancient of English cities, shows, more le [...]

Keywords: cities, buildings, streets, towns, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-04-26

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Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s Street The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with bir [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, streets, cars, buildings, cities, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, xmas, christmas, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2010-08-12

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Assen Oud Nederland (1927)

Assen is the capital of Drenthe, in North-East Netherlands (Holland). It’s possible that the large building at rear left is now the headquarters of RTF-Drenthe, the public regional broadcasting channe [...]

Keywords: buildings, cities, towns, cityscapes, churches, trees, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Assen; Drenthe; Netherlands

Added: 2010-05-23

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Leys Street. Antwerpia

Laystraat.

Rue Leys.

Leystrasse.

Leys street.

An old (undated) photograph of Laystraat in Antwerp. I can see signs for the Norwich Union, and for a large hotel (Metropole?) and also for F. Dierckx.

Keywords: cities, buildings, street scenes, old photogrphs, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-08-15

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