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Generals Grant and Pemberton negotiating the surrender of Vicksburg, American Civil War, 1863. General Ulyssess Grant (left) (1822-1885)

Headpiece from Thomas Mores Utopia, 1518. First published in 1516, Utopia was a work depicting an ideal state where reason ruled

Cent-Suisses, Caporal (grande tenue), Adjudant-Major Lieutenant (petite tenue), 1814-17 Artist: Eugene Titeux
Cent-Suisses, Caporal (grande tenue), Adjudant-Major Lieutenant (petite tenue), 1814-17. Histoire de la Maison Militaire du Roi de 1814-1830, volume 1

Paul Deroulede and his defender Oscar Falateuf, 1899. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Paul Deroulede and his defender Oscar Falateuf, 1899. Paul Deroulede (1846-1914) was a French author and politician. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 24th September 1899

The Frog and the Ox, 1893. Artist: Jean de la Fontaine
The Frog and the Ox, 1893. The Frog who would grow as big as the Ox by Jean de la Fontain. The Triple Alliance was a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary

A caricature of the Triple Alliance in Lustige Blatter magazine, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
A caricature of the Triple Alliance in Lustige Blatter magazine, 1893. The Triple Alliance was a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary

Dialogues of the Dead, 1728. Artist: Bernard Picart
Dialogues of the Dead, 1728. A print from Oeuvres Diverses, La Haye, Gosse & Neaulme, Volume I, 1728-1729. Found in the collection of Jean-Claude Carriere

A Lady in a Garden taking Coffee with some Children, probably 1742. Artist: Nicolas Lancret
A Lady in a Garden taking Coffee with some Children, probably 1742. From the National Gallery, London

Concert champetre, ( The Pastoral Concert ), c1510-1511. Artist: Titian
Concert champetre, ( The Pastoral Concert ), c1510-1511. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

The Four Times of the Day: Morning, 1739. Artist: Nicolas Lancret
The Four Times of the Day: Morning, 1739. From the National Gallery, London

Flower Sellers of Seville. Artist: Jose Rico Tejedo
Flower Sellers of Seville. From the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, Spain

Une Bonne Prise, 1870-1871. Cartoon depicting a scene during the Prussian Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

Illustration for Tell tale tit / your tounge shall be slit, Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Artist: Catherine Greenaway
Illustration for Tell tale tit/your tounge shall be slit, Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). For a book of nursery rhymes

Telephone switchboard, 1956

Samuel Johnson, English man of letters, talking to Oliver Goldsmith, English author, c1755-1774
Samuel Johnson, English man of letters, talking to Oliver Goldsmith, English author, 1755-1774. A critic, lexicographer, essayist, biographer and poet

Louis Botha receiving intelligence from a native spy, 2nd Boer War, c1900. Louis Botha (1862-1919), South African soldier and statesman, was Commander-in-chief of Boer forces from 1900 during the war

Christiaan De Wet, Afrikaner soldier, politician and big game hunter, c1899. De Wet (1854-1922) addressing burghers near Ventersdorp Station

Cover of The Ladies Home Journal, March 1900. A party of golfers on a snowy winters day

Camp gossips-Atsina, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Camp gossips-Atsina, c1908. Four Atsina women and a dog, their backs to camera, sitting some distance from tipis and others

The Parley, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Parley, c1908. Dakota men on horseback, one dismounted

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