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Hieroglyphs in the notebook of Jean-Francois Champollion, c1806-1832. Artist: Jean-Francois Champollion
Hieroglyphs in the notebook of Jean-Francois Champollion, c1806-1832. Research on the system of the Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean Francois Champollion, the translator of the Rosetta Stone

Wall paintings in the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt

German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. German nurses in a class room studying the Russian language during World War I.

Sketches in India - Brahmin Students, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in India - Brahmin Students, 1858. We are indebted to the "Photographic Album" of Bombay for the characteristic Sketch of two Brahmin Students of English Literature...These two

Institutiones graecae grammaticae, 1497-8. Creator: Unknown
Institutiones graecae grammaticae, 1497-8. Fratris Urbani Bellunensis Ordinis Minorum Institutiones grammaticae'. Page from a work on Greek grammar by Urbano Bolzanio

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Samuel Johnson, 1760s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Samuel Johnson, 1760s, (2023). Dr Johnson (1709-1784) was a British writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer

Mounted Plaque with Shi'ite Invocation, 17th-18th century. Creator: Unknown
Mounted Plaque with Shi'ite Invocation, 17th-18th century

Twenty-Five Views of the Capital (image 11 of 29), Late 19th century. Creator: Morikawa Sobun
Twenty-Five Views of the Capital (image 11 of 29), Late 19th century

Purchasing eggs and fowls of the natives - from a sketch by our special artist in China, 1860. Creator: Unknown
China - the British Forces in Talien-Wan - Purchasing eggs and fowls of the natives - from a sketch by our special artist in China, 1860

Kirsten Svendsdatter Finds the Gold Horn at Gallehus on 20 July 1639, 1859. Creator: Niels Simonsen
Kirsten Svendsdatter Finds the Gold Horn at Gallehus on 20 July 1639, 1859. (In 1639, a young peasant woman discovered a golden horn sticking out of the ground near her home in Denmark)

Hall of Languages, New York University, between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Hall of Languages, New York University, between 1900 and 1906

The Governor of Schopfheim, plate seven from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen... 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Governor of Schopfheim, plate seven from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

The Carbuncle, plate two from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Carbuncle, plate two from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

On a Grave, plate nine from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
On a Grave, plate nine from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

The Carbuncle, plate one from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Carbuncle, plate one from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

Ghost on the Kandern Road, plate six from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen... 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
Ghost on the Kandern Road, plate six from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

The Signpost, plate ten from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Signpost, plate ten from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

The Governor of Schopfheim, plate eight from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen... 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Governor of Schopfheim, plate eight from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

The Carbuncle, plate three from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Carbuncle, plate three from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

Hans and Verene, plate five from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
Hans and Verene, plate five from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

The Little Witch, plate four from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Little Witch, plate four from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

Class in language, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Class in language, 1904

Run Little Chillun, Los Angeles, 1938. Creator: Unknown
Run Little Chillun, Los Angeles, 1938. Folk opera Run Little Chillun was the first Broadway show directed by an African-American

Run, Little Chillun, Los Angeles, [193-]. Creator: Unknown
Run, Little Chillun, Los Angeles, [193-]....and see it! Hollywood Playhouse - by Hall Johnson, staged by Clarence Muse - Federal Theatre & Music Projects - division of W.P.A.'

Philétas instruisant Daphnis et Chloé, c.1875. Creator: Jules Elie Delaunay
Philetas instruisant Daphnis et Chloe, c.1875. Philitas of Cos instructing Daphnis and Chloe

Run Little Chillun, [193-]. Creator: Unknown
Run Little Chillun, [193-]. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

Run Little Chillun, [193-]. Creator: Unknown
Run Little Chillun, [193-]. The Federal Div's W.P.A...'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935

Portrait of Nicander, published 1574. Creators: Unknown, Johannes Sambucus
Portrait of Nicander, published 1574

Chariot Mount with Three Figures, Late Roman or Byzantine, 300-500. Creator: Unknown
Chariot Mount with Three Figures, Late Roman or Byzantine, 300-500. Probably two orators and a grammarian

Map showing Approximate Distribution of Kurdish Tribes of the Ottoman Empire, c1915. Diagram by British writer, soldier and diplomatic advisor Mark Sykes (1879-1919)

Kircher, (1602-1680), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Kircher, (1602-1680), 1830. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published works on comparative religion, geology, and medicine

Athelstan ordering the Bible to be translated into the Saxon Language, (1796). Athelstan (c895-939) was the first monarch to take the title of king of England. He ruled from 924 to 939

New Church, built by Sir Benjamin Hall, at Abercarn, South Wales, 1854. Creator: Unknown
New Church, built by Sir Benjamin Hall, at Abercarn, South Wales, 1854. Church provided...for the sole use of the native Cymri...The edifice is built of the fine stone of the locality...The sculpture

Sign outside entrance of largest lumber mill in the world, Longview, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Longview. Sign outside entrance of largest lumber mill in the world

Amphora (Storage Jar), 4th century BCE. Creator: Unknown
Amphora (Storage Jar), 4th century BCE

Hindustan Taxi, Calcutta, 2019. Creator: Unknown
Hindustan Taxi, Calcutta, 2019

Fishermans Cottage, 1906. Creator: Harald Sohlberg
Fishermans Cottage, 1906

Life in New York, 1824-39. Creator: Charles Ingrey
Life in New York, 1824-39. A poor Irish immigrant entreats a couple of well-dressed African-Americans to exchange his old coat for a new one

Life in New York, The Rivals, 1824-39. Creator: Charles Ingrey
Life in New York, The Rivals, 1824-39

Vasanta Vilasa (a poem on Spring) (detail), 1451. Creator: Unknown
Vasanta Vilasa (a poem on Spring) (detail), 1451

Sequoyah, c. 1830. Creator: Henry Inman
Sequoyah, c. 1830

Portrait Of Dr Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), 1800. Creator: Unknown
Portrait Of Dr Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), 1800. English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator

Sarasvati, ca. 1885-95. Creator: Unknown
Sarasvati, ca. 1885-95

Lindley Murray, 1827. Creator: Asher Brown Durand
Lindley Murray, 1827

Noah Webster, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1888

Anagram in Honor of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, ca. 1595-1605

Portrait of Jahangir Beg, Jansipar Khan, Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, ca. 1627
Portrait of Jahangir Beg, Jansipar Khan, Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, verso: ca. 1627; recto: ca. 1530-50

Lalit Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes), ca. 1680-90

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