These remarkable pictures show the American West as it was explored for the first time. Taken by photographer Timothy O’Sullivan who worked with a Federal Government team as they explored the American West. He had earlier covered the ...
Browsing: 1800-1900
These images archived at the Library Of Congress show scenes in 1890-1900 from Israel, Lebanon and Syria, which was at the time controlled by the Ottoman Empire. It was a largely pastoral land that looks like it had ...
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 miles ...
There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel came with an Act of Parliament in 1875 ...
Street Life in London, published in 1876-7, consists of a series of articles by the radical journalist Adolphe Smith and the photographer John Thomson. The pieces are short but full of detail, based on interviews with ...
He was the self-proclaimed Emperor of the USA. He was a failed rice investor. He proposed tunnelling under San Francisco Bay – and bridging over it. He was a madman. And 30,000 people paid tribute to ...
Warren Elsmore, Chairman of the Brickish Association created this fantastic scale-model of St-Pancras station, containing 60,000 blocks, and taking 8 weeks to build. “I chose St Pancras Station after the Brickish Association completed a PR project for ...
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Some amazing examples of old photographs of London. These remind us just how many buildings in London have been lost to regeneration, The Blitz, changing land use and fashion. White Hart Inn Yard.Borough.1880 “The introduction of ...
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