Background People Collection (page 2)

Rosehearty, c1909. Artist: Robert Weir Allan
Rosehearty, c1909. From The Studio Volume 46. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1909]

Stairways adorned by magnificient architecture... (Gruppo di Scale ornato di magnifica Architettura...), ca. 1750

Courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 19th century. Creator: Francesco Salviati
Courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 19th century

The Muiderpoort, Amsterdam, seen from the Plantage, 1771. Creator: Hendrick Keun
The Muiderpoort, Amsterdam, seen from the Plantage, 1771

The Giants Causeway, c1870. Interlocking volcanic basalt columns at UNESCO World Heritage Site - the Giants Causeway, in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland

Tewkesbury Abbey, 1898. Creator: Unknown
Tewkesbury Abbey, 1898. Tewkesbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery with Romanesque crossing tower restored by George Gilbert Scott in late 19th century

St. Nicholas Church: The Nave, 1886, (1898). Creator: Unknown
St. Nicholas Church: The Nave, 1898. St Nicholass church in Great Yarmouth, founded 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, is the towns oldest, most visible, historic landmark

The Town Hall: An Open-Air Band Performance, 1898. Creator: Unknown
The Town Hall: An Open-Air Band Performance, 1898. From " Our Own Country, Volume I.". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1898]

Built in a Belfast Shipyard - The launching of the Edinburgh Castle, a fine ship built recently for the South African run and launched by Princess Margaret, c1948

Twice a year bump races take place on the Thames at Oxford, c1948. Creator: Unknown
Twice a year " bump" races take place on the Thames at Oxford, c1948. From " Newnes Pictorial Knowledge Volume 3". [George Newnes Limited, London]

Views on the River Lea, c1876. Creator: Unknown
Views on the River Lea, c1876. Ferry House, Tottenham Church, weir, cottage and Tottenham Lock on the River Lea, East London

Lauderdale House, in 1820, (c1876). Creator: Unknown
Lauderdale House, in 1820, (c1876). Lauderdale House in Waterlow Park, Highgate, originally built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) in 1582, converted to neoclassical style in 1760

The Royal Anchor, Liphook, Hampshire, 1936. Creator: Unknown
The Royal Anchor, Liphook, Hampshire, 1936. The Royal Anchor hotel, 18th century coaching inn on the London to Portsmouth road

Palace of the Stuarts, York, 1881. Creator: Unknown
Palace of the Stuarts, York, 1881. The Kings Manor is a Grade I listed building in York, England, and is now part of the University of York. From " The Leisure Hour 1881", by

The Harbour, Bridlington Quay, c1896. Artist: JW Shores
The Harbour, Bridlington Quay, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

Ardrishaig - The Steamer Columba at Ardrishaig Quay, 1895. From Round the Coast. [George Newnes Limited, London, 1895]

Roma - Piazza di Venezia. Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, 1910. Altar of Fatherland, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Mr. G. Sacconi laid the foundation stone in 1884

Lubeck - Holstentor, 1931. Artist: Kurt Hielscher
Lubeck - Holstentor, 1931. From Deutschland by Kurt Hielscher. [F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1931]

The old entrance to London Bridge under the tower of St. Magnus, c1902, (1903). Artist: Hedley Fitton
The old entrance to London Bridge under the tower of St. Magnus, c1902, (1903). From The Pall Mall Magazine Volume XXXI, edited by George R. Halkett. [Editorial and Publishing Offices, London, 1903]

Vestibule of Asylum, 1889. Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Vestibule of Asylum, 1889. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nottingham Castle, 1898. Creator: Unknown
Nottingham Castle, 1898. 1 and 2: Mortimers Hole; 3: King David of Scotlands Prison; 4 The Castle Gate. From " Our Own Country, Volume IV"

Morning Mists, Hemingford Grey, 1906. Creator: Frederick George Cotman
Morning Mists, Hemingford Grey, 1906. by Frederick George Cotman (1850-1920). From " The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours", edited by Charles Holme

Ye Olde Boars Head, Middleton, Lancashire, 1939. From Old Inns - Second Series of 40. [W. D. & H. O. Wills, 1939]

Ponselle, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Ponselle, between c1915 and c1920. Shows soprano opera singer Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) with a child in a baby carriage.

Suf. [i.e. suffrage] parade, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Suf. [i.e. suffrage] parade, 1917. Shows women carrying a ballot box in a women's suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 27, 1917.

H.P. Davison, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
H.P. Davison, between c1915 and c1920.

Prince Ruspoli, 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Prince Ruspoli, 1919. Shows Prince Eugenio Ruspoli, Secretary of the Italian Embassy, probably taken aboard the Mauretania at the Cunard pier in New York on November 25, 1919.

Million Dollar Corner, 34th and Broadway, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Million Dollar Corner, 34th and Broadway, between c1910 and c1915.

British tank on 5th Ave., 25 Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British tank on 5th Ave., 25 Oct 1917. The British Mark IV Tank "Britannia" which was brought to New York City where it was renamed the Liberty and put on exhibit to help sell war bonds

U.S.S. Recruit, Union Sq., between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
U.S.S. Recruit, Union Sq., between c1915 and c1920. The "U.S.S. Recruit," a wooden battleship built by the Navy in Union Square, New York City

Germans in Lowicz, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Germans in Lowicz, between 1914 and c1915. German soldiers on horseback in Lowicz, Poland during World War I.

Germans helping refugees returning to Antwerp, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Germans helping refugees returning to Antwerp, 1914. German soldiers on train tracks carrying bundle for Belgian refugees in Antwerp, Belgium during World War I.

German Submarines in harbor, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German Submarines in harbor, between c1914 and c1915. German submarines in a harbor. Front row (left to right): U-22, U-20 (sank the Lusitania), U-19 and U-21

Submarine "U-10" at full speed, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Submarine "U-10" at full speed, between c1914 and c1915. The German U-10 submarine which served in World War I.

Submarine "U-7" at full speed, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Submarine "U-7" at full speed, between c1914 and c1915. The German U-7 submarine which served in World War I.

On the Sim River near the Asha-Balashovskii Station, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
On the Sim River near the Asha-Balashovskii Station, 1910.

Ladva Station on the Murmansk railroad; Uneveness of the railway, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Ladva Station on the Murmansk railroad; Uneveness of the railway, 1915.

Railroad construction on the Shadrinsk-Sinara railroad near the city of Shadrinsk, 1912.

Railroad bridge over the Shuya River, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Railroad bridge over the Shuya River, 1915.

Kirosskii quarry, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Kirosskii quarry, 1915.

Construction of the lock, Kuzminskoe, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Construction of the lock, Kuzminskoe, 1912.

Embankment of Lake Seliger: "Fishing settlements on Lake Seliger", 1910. Men in fishing boats at the shore of a fishing village, with fishing nets drying in the background.

Main building of the St. Nilus Stolobensky Monastery, Lake Seliger, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Main building of the St. Nilus Stolobensky Monastery, Lake Seliger, 1910. Four people seated on road near monastery entrance.

Old chapel on the street of the town of Ostashkov, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Old chapel on the street of the town of Ostashkov, 1910. Chapel at corner of Orlovskii Street and Liuba Bogomolova lane; not near embankment.

Dam's slender abutment and part of the finished sill, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Dam's slender abutment and part of the finished sill, Beloomut, 1912. A uniformed man standing near a dam abutment, more men posed in background.

A Pack Road in the Katun River Valley near the Village of Tavda. Cliff "Skakun"..., 1911-1913
A Pack Road in the Katun River Valley near the Village of Tavda. Cliff "Skakun." Log Boards for the Passage of Horses over the Precipice, 1911-1913

General View of the Village of Cherga, 1911-1913. Creator: Sergei Ivanovich Borisov
General View of the Village of Cherga, 1911-1913. From a collection of color postcards of the Altay, or Altai, Mountains region of southern Siberia early in the 20th century

The Village of Elekmonar, Valley of the Middle Reaches of the Katun River, 1911-1913. Creator: Sergei Ivanovich Borisov
The Village of Elekmonar, Valley of the Middle Reaches of the Katun River, 1911-1913. From a collection of color postcards of the Altay, or Altai

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