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Front Cover

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Front CoverDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The front cover of this late 1880s book is ornately decorated: it’s a dark blue-green with black printing and gold foil-stamping.

Die
österreichisch-ungarische
Monarchie
in
Mort und Bild.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-09-18

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

Wolfsthal Castle: Last view from Austria

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Wolfsthal Castle: Last view from AustriaDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The Ruins of Pottenburg Castle, Wolfsthal, Austria Someone wearing a hat sits on a grassy bank in a forest of old mature trees and gazes up at the moon over the tuins of a castle, mysterious in the da [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, forests, woods, trees, moon, towers, monlight, nightime, spooky, halloween, greyscale

Places shown: Wolfsthal; Bruck an der Leitha; Lower Austria; Austria

Added: 2020-10-04

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

Border of ancient skulls

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Border of ancient skullsDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

This full-page border surrounded the opening of an article on the hstory of Lower Austria. It includes carefully-drawn skulls and other bones from long-extinct creatures, presumably based on fossils. [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, skulls, fossilsnatural history, tusks, death, extinction, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-03-05

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

Border of overgrown ruins with Roman inscription

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Border of overgrown ruins with Roman inscriptionDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The border includes a stone pillar with perhaps ivy growing over it, some old coins (possibly Roman) and a Latin inscription with a bas-relief sculpture of a winged boy, a cupid. There’s a ruined arch [...]

Keywords: borders, roman remains, antiquities, inscriptions, pillars, ivy, full-page borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-03-07

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

A Mighty Queen

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A Mighty QueenDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

This engraving shows a queen holding her globus cruciger (an orb with a cross on top symbolizing spiritual and temporal power) and a wand or sceptre (or possibly a spear); she wears a crown and what m [...]

Keywords: people, royalty, queens, cherubs, religion, christianity, tailpieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-09-22

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

Castles 8: Khaya, Starhemberg, Grundriss von Lichtenfels

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Castles 8: Khaya, Starhemberg, Grundriss von LichtenfelsDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

This is the 8th illustrated page of the chapter “Castles and Homes in Lower Austria” (Burgen und Wohnstätten in Niederösterreich) and shows Khaya (modern name Kaja), the ruins of Starhemberg (modern n [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, towers, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: Lower Austria; Austria

Added: 2014-09-10

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

Khaya (Kaja) Castle

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Khaya (Kaja) CastleDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

Burgruine Kaja, or the ruined castle of Khaya, is a castle in Lower Austria. This is a detail from Castles Page 8, one of a series of full-page sets of engravings of castles and manors in Lower Austri [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: Kaja; Weinviertel; Lower Austria; Austria

Added: 2014-09-13

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

Farmer and his Wife, Ybbstal Valley

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Farmer and his Wife, Ybbstal ValleyDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The picture shows a farmer and his wife wearing (one assumes) clothing that was typical for such people in the 1880s in the Ybbstal Valley in Austria. I think, however, that these are not their workin [...]

Keywords: people, farming, costumes, men, women, boots, hats, dresses, colour

Places shown: Ybbstal; Austria

Added: 2014-05-14

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

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