Images Dated 17th November 2007

North front of the Hotel des Ursins, Paris, c17th century (1849)

North front of the Hotel des Ursins, Paris, c17th century (1849). The hotel was built during the 14th century, restord in the 16th century and iwas destroyed some time after that. A 19th century version based on an original c17th century manuscript illustration. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud, Volume III (Paris, 1849)

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Queen Victoria (1819-1901) aged four years old, 19th century.Artist: Eyre & Spottiswoode

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) aged four years old, 19th century. Queen Victoria was queen of Great Britain and Ireland between 1837 and 1901, a reign which lasted almost 64 years - longer than that of any other British monarch. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Camp Stevens, looking westward, Montana, USA, 1856.Artist: Gustav Sohon

Camp Stevens, looking westward, Montana, USA, 1856. Camp Stevens served as a base for metereological observation and side explorations in the Rocky Mountains for the United States Pacific Railroad Survey. Print from Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-1855, by Beverley Tucker, volume III, published by Sarony, Major and Knapp (Washington, 1856)

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