vintage clothing, history

Bessie Coleman, aviatrix. - A woman sitting at a table with a sewing m...

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Portrait of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, sitting with yarn and knitti...

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Ein mekkanischer Arzt, dessen Sohn, Kinder aus der Familie der Benî Sc...

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Snake-charmers in India page 182

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Fashionable ladies - Egypt

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Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Ben...

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Habit of a nobleman of Rome. Ancien noble Romain.

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Habit of a gentleman of Wallachia. Gentilhomme Valaque.

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Founding fathers. [Benjamin Franklin.]

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DeWitt Clinton [mingling the waters of Lake Erie with the Atlantic].

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Founding fathers. David Hume Esqr.

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His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales.

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Major General Andrew Jackson. Art print

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Marriott Arbuthnot Esq., Admiral of the Blue Squadron.

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Sir Francis Bacon. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Sir George Calvert Lord Baltimore; His seal & autograph from an origin...

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Iowa County meteorites - Professor Leonard collective.

Iowa stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembl... More

Charles Hodge - Public domain portrait engraving

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Major John James attacking Capt. Ardesoif.

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Poor children playing on sidewalk, Georgetown, Washington, D.C

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The Rapids Pilot, Sault Ste. Marie.

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School youngsters, Red House, West Virginia

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[Raton from the west.] 19th century stereoscopic views of New Mexico.

Chicago Illinois stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker... More

Breaking and loading coal in mines after a blast has knocked it down, ...

New York stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

[Peasants dancing] - A drawing of a group of people sitting around a t...

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Juan de Torquemada. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Young Fijian warriors. - A group of people standing next to each other

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Dresses, History of Second Polish Republic

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Main Street, Silver Mountain, Alpine County.

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La danse des Deruis - A drawing of a group of people in a room

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William Henry Harrison. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Claude Henri Watelet - Willm. Penn ; William Penn.

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Washington's first interview with Mrs. Custis, afterwords Mrs. Washing...

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Smithland, Kentucky - A black and white photo of a man sitting in fron...

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[Portrait of a child.] Connecticut. NYP Sterescope Card Collection.

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Destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

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The ball room - A group of people standing in a room

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Ad Augusta Maywood Ravenna plaudente, 1852.

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George Washington Carver - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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Henry Bryan Hall - His Excellency Samuel Adams Esqr.

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Fashionable ladies., Qing Dynasty

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Habit of a German officer in 1588. Officier Allemand.

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William Hogarth - The House of Commons

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[Sir Edmund Andros.] - Public domain portrait engraving

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Oesterreich-Ungarn : Rittmeister, Escadronstrompeter : Jaczygier und K...

The collection by the Dutch physician H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910). 18th-19th-century European armies.

Gilbert Stuart - James Barton Longacre - John Adams.

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Gilbert Stuart - James Barton Longacre - Caleb Strong, late governor o...

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Yale College. - Public domain dedication image

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Charmeur des [serpents]. - Public domain portrait print

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James Barton Longacre - The Revd. John Wesley, A.M.[...]

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[Washington swearing the oath of office.]

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Talleyrand, portrait Art print portrait

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The martyr of liberty Art print

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pa...

New York stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

Militaru uniforms: Mosquetero, piquero, arcabucero. 1633

The collection by the Dutch physician H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910). 19th-century European infantry.

Eileen - love song - Public domain sheet music scan

Galla Females, highlands of Ethiopia

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Teyat (oilman), his shop and customers at Cairo

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Carib Indians making Baskets, Dominica

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Eia Imperatorskoe Velichestvo Gosudarynia Imperatritsa Aleksandra Feod...

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W. W. Browne, Founder of the True Reformers.

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Morning habit of a lady of quality in Barbary in 1700. Dame de la Côte...

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Robes - The history of the feminine costume of the world

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Woman Swearing a Child to a grave Citizen

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The Author run Mad [A Satire on Hogarth, by Paul Sandby]

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Habit of Cunne Shote a Cherokee Chief. Cunne Shote Chèf des Chiroquois...

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General James Grant. - Public domain portrait engraving

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James Barton Longacre - James Wilson.

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Christopher Columbus coat of arms

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Boston Massacre. - Public domain dedication image

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Peter Faneuil. - Public domain book scan / drawing

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Phillis Wheatley. Art print - Pictorial field book of the revolution

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Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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Grand Basin from an Hill. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis.

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R. C. Luesley's burro pack train, in a mountain pass, loaded with merc...

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Statute of Ceres or Peace, by Persico, On the left of the Entrance to ...

Washington DC stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker wh... More

Pahute Indians, the three beauties. Indians of North America. Steresco...

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Taccuinum Sanitatis. Botanical illustrations manuscript

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Canadian minuets (social dancing)

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Bedouins from the vicinity of Suez

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Fashionable ladies, Greece

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Red Stockings of Cincinnati, 1869. C. Hurley, Sub.; G. Wright, S.S.; M...

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Austria, K.K Österreich Armée, Offi Deutsch Grenadier

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The Most Reverend John Carroll, D.D., first archbishop of Baltimore.

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France, 1575-1650. Henry III, Henry IV, Louis XIII.

The collection by the Dutch physician H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910). 18th-19th-century European armies.

Thomas Bethune (Blind Tom) - Public domain portrait engraving

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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Art print

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Horatio Gates Esqr. Major General of the American forces

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Napoleon, portrait - Public domain portrait print

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Paul Revere coat of arms Art print

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John Adams coat of arms Art print

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His royall most illustrious highness James, duke of York.

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Two African-American youths. West Memphis, Arkansas

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G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] reunion at Yankton, Sept. 9-11, 18...

Pennsylvania stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who... More

Apache Indians, as they appear ready for the war-path.

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More

The Biltmore. Buttolph menus collection.

Abû Lahab and his followers hurl stones at Muhammad and Abû Bakr at th...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.