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1210x900, 2420x1800, 269x200, 4840x3600, 750x558 | Chester, from the Alford Road.The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee. Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2018-08-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 152x200, 1802x2375, 569x750, 901x1188 | Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)The Circling Year (1870) A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...] Keywords: winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2018-01-20 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1114x730, 1485x973, 1808x1212, 305x200, 835x547, 904x606 | View of OxfordOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896) We see the ancient city in the distance between trees in the foreground. 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 + S K L R N |
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| 117x200, 1457x2500, 437x750, 729x1250 | III. – Morning in Amsterdam.Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895) Morgen in Amsterdam Morning in Amsterdam. The church in the background might be St Nicolaas’ in Amsterdam. Von den jüngeren deutschen Landschaftsmalern hat sich Hans Hermann rasch einen bedeutenden Ru [...] Keywords: art, people, buildings, impressionist paintings, cities, street scenes, morning, greyscale Places shown: Amsterdam; North Holland; Netherlands Added: 2019-02-13 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton HillEdinburgh (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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1182x822, 1577x1097, 287x200, 887x617 | Slave MarketPictureseque 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 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | The Church of St. Giles from the LawnmarketEdinburgh (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 + S K L R N |
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1313x833, 1750x1111, 315x200, 984x625 | Widow MourningPictureseque 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 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | High StreetOxford: 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 + S K L R N |
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1084x1258, 172x200, 610x708, 813x944 | Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s StreetThe 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x640, 1152x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 319x200, 700x438 | AssenOud 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 + S K L R N |
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1535x1226, 250x200, 750x599 | Nazareth, PalestineFamous Scenes and Cities (1894) A photograph of the town Nazareth, captioned (in 1894) as being in Palestine (it was captured in 1948 by the then-new invading European Israeli army): NAZARETH, PALESTINE—Few Oriental towns are so at [...] Keywords: photographs, towns, cities, buildings, israel, greyscale Places shown: Nazareth; Palestine Added: 2024-08-10 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1110x1395, 159x200, 596x750 | Damascus, SyriaFamous Scenes and Cities (1894) In this vintage photograph from 1893 or so, we see the rooftops of a city: domes, mosques with their minaret towers (one in the left foreground), and, at front, a building with cloistered walks on two [...] Keywords: minarets, towers, cities, views, cityscapes, roofs, rooves, domes, arches, cloisters, greyscale Places shown: DamascusDamascus; Syria Added: 2020-09-19 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, 267x200, 800x600 | 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 + S K L R N |
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1107x750, 1280x720, 1351x915, 1600x900, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 2701x1830, 295x200, 3840x2160, 3840x2602 | Bougie and the Atlas MountainsThe Tricolor on the Atlas; Algeria and the French Conquest (1855) This stunning and beautiful chromolithograph shows a view of a small town in Algiers, with the Atlas Mountains in the background. The engraving is captioned Bougie and the Atlas Mountains; the modern [...] Keywords: views, mountains, cities, towwns, buildings, people, animals, bare feet, rivers, water, walls, animals, camels, colour Places shown: Béjaïa; Algeria Added: 2018-05-04 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1222x881, 2443x1761, 277x200, 750x541 | Old Bologna (1850s)Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858) A montage in the style of a vintage postcard. Piazza Maggiore [main square]. Palazzo Governatio [Government palace]. Piazza de S. Domenico [Saint Dominic’s Square]. Torri degli Asinelli e Garisendi [A [...] Keywords: bologna, buildings, medieval, cities, cityscapes, views, arches, cloisters, colonnades, columns, towers, churches, greyscale Places shown: Bologna; Emilia-Romagna Italy Added: 2024-12-08 + S K L R N |
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