German Text Collection

Berlin, goulash for 8 cents, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Berlin, goulash for 8 cents, 1916. Women serving food from a mobile lunch kitchen in Berlin in 1916 during World War I. Sign reads translated from German: "Warm lunch

Some of the men who took Tilloy, 10 Apr 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Some of the men who took Tilloy, 10 Apr 1917. Soldiers of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment with captured machine guns in front of a German mobile pill box and observation post

German Sanitary sign near Lodz, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German Sanitary sign near Lodz, between 1914 and c1915. A sign in German "Trinkwasser" (drinking water) next to a pump in Lodz, Poland during World War I.

French gardener, Prison camp, Zossen, 24 Feb 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French gardener, Prison camp, Zossen, 24 Feb 1915 (date created or published later). A French prisoner working on a flower display outside a building at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wu¨nsdorf

Dedication, plate one from A Love, 1887. Creator: Max Klinger
Dedication, plate one from A Love, 1887

Card for the Gurlitt Exhibition: Imagination and the Child Artist, 1881. Creator: Max Klinger
Card for the Gurlitt Exhibition: Imagination and the Child Artist, 1881

Historia, Modernitas, Pictura sacra, Homer, from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Historia, Modernitas, Pictura sacra, Homer, from A Life, 1884

Title Page: A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Title Page: A Life, 1884

Preface I, plate one from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Preface I, plate one from A Life, 1884

Dedication, 1823. Creator: Ferdinand Olivier
Dedication, 1823

Geneva from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel's World History), Plate 22 from Woodcuts... 1929
Geneva from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel's World History), Plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century, 1493, portfolio assembled 1929

The Martyrdom of Saint Simon of Trent from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel's World... 1929. Creator: Michael Wolgemut)
The Martyrdom of Saint Simon of Trent from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel's World History), Plate 23 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century, 1493, portfolio assembled 1929

Image of Death (Imago Mortis), from the Nuremberg Chronicle, c. 1493. Creator: Michael Wolgemut
Image of Death (Imago Mortis), from the Nuremberg Chronicle, c. 1493

Pharoah and His Host Perishing in the Red Sea (verso); The Freeing of King Joachim... 1491. Creator: Michael Wolgemut
Pharoah and His Host Perishing in the Red Sea (verso); The Freeing of King Joachim of Jerusalem (recto), pages 56 and 55, from the Treasury (Schatzbehalter), 1491

Tournament Shield (Targe), German, ca. 1500. Creator: Unknown
Tournament Shield (Targe), German, ca. 1500

Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe), German, 15th century. Creator: Unknown
Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe), German, 15th century

Parade Saddle, German or Tyrolean, 1400-1450. Creator: Unknown
Parade Saddle, German or Tyrolean, 1400-1450

Different Scenes, from the Gospels and from Acta Apostolorum, ca. 1530

Von Weihern und Fischteichen, illustration from Petrarch, Gluck und Ungluck Spiegel, figure 65, 1652

Von allerhandt Freudenvoglen, illustration from Petrarch, Gluck und Ungluck Spiegel, figure 66, 1652

Von sorglichkeit ansachtung, schwere und mühsamkeit der Tugent
Von sorglichkeit ansachtung, schwere und muhsamkeit der Tugent, so vornemlich in der Demut betehet, illustration from Petrarch, Gluck und Ungluck Spiegel, figure 12, 1652

Roundel, German, 1671. Creator: Unknown
Roundel, German, 1671

Sheets of Verses: Priamel vom Schuldenbot, late 18th-early 19th century

The Book of Chess, 1483. Creator: Jacobus de Cessolis
The Book of Chess, 1483

Baroque Church Facade with Obliquely Placed Towers. ca. 1760-70

Elevation and Plan of the Facade of a Building, 1840

Friedrich III (1463-1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, 1533. Creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Friedrich III (1463-1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, 1533. The accompanying laudatory poems emphasize the passage of Saxon electoral preeminence

Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from an Antiphonary, ca. 1425-50. Creator: Unknown
Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from an Antiphonary, ca. 1425-50

Secession Building, Vienna, Austria, (1897), 2015. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Secession Building, Vienna, Austria, 2015. Joseph Obrich: 1897

Foyer Schaerbeek, 53-59 Rue Victor Hugo, Brussels, Belgium, (1909) c2014-2017. Artist
Foyer Schaerbeek, 53-59 Rue Victor Hugo, Brussels, Belgium, c2014-2017. Henri Jacob

Kast & Ehinger G. m. b. H. Stuttgart advertisement, 1907. Artist: G Dreher
Kast & Ehinger G.m.b.H. Stuttgart advertisement, 1907. Printed with Kast & Ehingers inks. From The British Printer Vol. XX. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1907]

The Boers tried hard to recapture him, 1899, (1945). Churchill was captured during the Boer War. He had only been in captivity about four weeks when he escaped on the evening of 12th December 1899

The Order of the Lion of Baden (Golden Lion of Daringen), c19th century
The Order of the Lion of Baden (Golden Lion of Daringen). The Order of the Zahringer Lion was established in 1812 by Karl, Grand Duke of Baden (1786-1818), in memory of his ancestors

Ubersichtskarte zu Kurt Hielscher Deutschland, 1931. Artist: Kurt Hielscher
Ubersichtskarte zu Kurt Hielscher Deutschland, (Overview Map Kurt Hielscher Germany), 1931. From Deutschland by Kurt Hielscher. [F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1931]

Fireplace designed by C. Harrison Townsend with carving designed and executed by George Frampton
Fireplace designed by C Harrison Townsend with carving designed and executed by George Frampton, c1896, (1897). A Fireplace designed by Charles Harrison Townsend (1851-1928)

Christ on the Way to Calvary, c1530, (1907). Artist: Matthias Gerung
Christ on the Way to Calvary, c1530, (1907). From a German Translation of the New Testament. From The Worlds History, Volume VI. Edited by Dr. H. F. Helmolt [William Heinemann, London, 1907]

An Early Autograph Album: A Hauspostill from the works of Martin Luther, c1550. A Hauspostill from the works of Martin Luther given by Duke Friedrick Wilhelm Of Saxony (1562-1602)

Amphiprion bifasciatus. Pomacentris pavo. Glyphisodo, c. 1850s
Amphiprion bifasciatus. Pomacentris pavo. Glyphisodo, c.1850s

Death of Frederick Barbarossa, c1154, (1907). Frederick I (1122-1190), also known as Frederick Barbarossa, was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152

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