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Front Cover, PortfolioFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

The front cover of the book is brown with “Famous Scenes and Cities” in gold embossed capital letters onthe front.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, embossing, lettering, brown, gold, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-19

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Haddon Hall, EnglandFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Almost in the centre of England stands this ideal specimen of an old baronial mansion, known as Haddon Hall. In the twelfth century it came into the possession of the Vernon family, who occupied it fo [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, windows, battlements, tudor architecture, courtyards, ivy, creeper, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Haddon Hall; Bakewell; Derbyshire

Added: 2020-09-19

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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

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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

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Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis, EnglandFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

An English country churchyard, with uneven monuments, and a medieval church with ivy-covered walls and a spire. The extract from Thomas Gray’s poem given here (Elegy in a Country Churchyard) is only a [...]

Keywords: churches, churchyards, graveyards, walls, ivy, poems, peacefulness, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2021-08-28

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Old Curiosity Shop, LondonFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Charles Dickens’ story The Old Curiosity Shop was published in 1840; the photograph here dates from 1893 or so and shoes the London shop of H. Poole, Waste Paper Dealer; on the side of the building, u [...]

Keywords: dickens, london, shops, streets, street scenes, cobbles, signs, windows, fog, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2020-09-19

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