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Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Creator: Taki Katei
Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Meiji period

Nichiren Calming the Storm, 19th century. Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Nichiren Calming the Storm, 19th century

Landing a 155 mm gun at Sedd-ul [i.e., Sedd-el] Bahr, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Landing a 155 mm gun at Sedd-ul [i.e., Sedd-el] Bahr, 1915. Warships near the Gallipoli Penninsula, Turkey during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I.

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

Pioneer camp, 1929. Creator: GP Putintsev
Pioneer camp, 1929. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents drawn from the personal archives of people who lived in the town of Berdsk in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Snow on Mt. Haruna in Kozuke Province, 1853. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Snow on Mt. Haruna in Kozuke Province, 1853. From Famous Places of the Sixty-odd Provinces

les Italiens en Albanie ; un auto-camion italienen mauvaise posture sur le pont du Sarantaporos, a Creator: Unknown
les Italiens en Albanie ; un auto-camion italienen mauvaise posture sur le pont du Sarantaporos, a la frontiere greco-albanaise, 1916

The Twelve Months, between 1900 and 1918. Creator: Watanabe Seitei
The Twelve Months, between 1900 and 1918

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from... 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, 1830/33

Man Crossing Log Bridge over Torrent, n.d. Creator: Jan van Eyck
Man Crossing Log Bridge over Torrent, n.d

Gathering Cliff Fungus at Kumano, Kishu Province (Kishu kumano iwatake tori), from the ser... 1860
Gathering Cliff Fungus at Kumano, Kishu Province (Kishu kumano iwatake tori), from the series "One Hundred Views of Famous Views in the Various Provinces (shokoku meishi hyakkei)", 1860

Mushroom Gathering at Kumano in Kii Province (Kishu Kumano iwatake tori) from the series "... 1860
Mushroom Gathering at Kumano in Kii Province (Kishu Kumano iwatake tori) from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)", 1860

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from... 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, 1830/33

The Mitsui Shop in Surugacho in Edo (Koto Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu), from the... c. 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
The Mitsui Shop in Surugacho in Edo (Koto Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, c. 1830/33

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from... 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, 1830/33

Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the... 1853
Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)", 1853

Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the... 1853
Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)", 1853

Cliff perched homes-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Cliff perched homes-Hopi, c1906. Four Hopi women in front of pueblo buildings

Cliff "Trunk" and Shaman's Rock, 1880-1897. Creator: Pavel Mikhailovich Kosharov
Cliff "Trunk" and Shaman's Rock, 1880-1897. From a collection of paintings, lithographs, sketches, studies, and drawings

Kamchatka, Hunting Puffins, 19th century. Creators: Friedrich Heinrich Kittlitz, Victor Adam, Godefroy Engelmann
Kamchatka, Hunting Puffins, 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by Tsar

"Khabit" (Khobot) Rock and the Shaman's Stone at 4 Versts From the Village of Kaltuk... 1850-1899
"Khabit" (Khobot) Rock and the Shaman's Stone at 4 Versts From the Village of Kaltuk- Lake Baikal, 1850-1899

No. 41: Distant View of the Ina River Bridge at Nojiri (Yonjuichi: Noriji Inagawabas... c. 1835 / 36)
No. 41: Distant View of the Ina River Bridge at Nojiri (Yonjuichi: Noriji Inagawabashi enkei), from the series " [Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaido", Japan, c. 1835/36

Chao-Chow-Fu Bridge, c. 1868. Creator: John Thomson
Chao-Chow-Fu Bridge, c. 1868. A work made of collotype, pl. viii from the album " illustrations of china and its people, volume ii" (1873)

Kannondo, Abuto, Bingo Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-O... ca. 1853
Kannondo, Abuto, Bingo Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces, ca. 1853

Carrick-A-Rede, c1870. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge in County Antrim, Northern Ireland links the mainland with the island of Carrickarede above the Atlantic Ocean

The Steeple, Kynance Cove, c1870. Steeple Rock at Kynance Cove on the Lizard peninsula in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. From " Picturesque Europe - The British Isles, Vol. I"

Mount Cook, and the Head of the Hooker Glacier, New Zealand, c1909. Creator: George Rose
Mount Cook, and the Head of the Hooker Glacier, New Zealand, c1909....from a dangerous pinnacle on Mount Wakefield. One of a set of stereocard views by George Rose

Agassiz Column, Yosemite, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Agassiz Column, Yosemite, c1897. Balancing rock in Yosemite National Park, California. From " A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co

Alpine Pass, Colorado, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Alpine Pass, Colorado, c1897. Historic narrow gauge railroad. From " A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co. London, c1897]

A Cannonade on the Matterhorn, from Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860 - 69, pub. 1871 (engraving), 1871

Inside of a sewer, London, 1939. Interior of a sewer showing storm relief gates and a man standing on the walkway

Performance at Sadlers Wells Theatre, Finsbury, London, 1750. The curious & uncommon performances of a monkey as they will be introduc d every evening at Sadlers Wells

John Nash on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, Westminster, London, 1824
Nashional taste!!!; 1824; showing the architect John Nash spiked by the seat of his trousers on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, St Marylebone, Westminster, London

Man taking part in the Bugatti Owners Club car treasure hunt, 25 October 1931. Artist: Bill Brunell
Place: Bugatti O.C. Treasure Hunt. Date: 25.10.31

Inspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets, 20th century. Artist
Inspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets, London, 20th century. The cables are fastened to the wires by rawhide suspenders

Tigers Nest Buddhist monastery, Bhutan. Buildings of the Buddhist monastery of Taktsang (Tigers Nest) precariously sited on a rocky ledge over 2000 feet above the valley floor

Tigers Nest monastery, Bhutan. Buildings of the Buddhist monastery of Taktsang (Tigers Nest) precariously sited on a rocky ledge over 2000 feet above the valley floor

Temple of Diosuri, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Agrigento town behind

Rottweil a. Neckar, 1931. Artist: Kurt Hielscher
Rottwell a. Neckar, 1931. From Deutschland by Kurt Hielscher. [F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1931]

A Critical Moment, 1890. The descent of the great war balloon from the military exhibition. From a sketch by a passenger. An illustration from The Graphic, 19 July 1890

View from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, USA, 1902. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
View from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, USA, 1902. The Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls are in the background. Detail from a stereoscopic card

A pagoda atop a boulder, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XVI, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

Theatre, late 16th / early 17th century. Artist: Jacques Bellange
Theatre, Bellange, Private Collection

Theatre de la Gaite, Niagara Falls, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Theatre de la Gaite, Niagara Falls, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 13th February 1892

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