Wild Nature from the Window of Your Passing Train

Go West, and see the wild. Well, maybe not quite from the train as you pass by, but something to look for when you go hunting out there. Artwork by H. W. Hansen; ran in the May 1907 issue of the CENTURY MAGAZINE.

This ad for travel on the Southern Pacific Railway, through Oregon and California, is from the eBay catalog listings of seller americanartarchives.

Literal Picture History, 1884

Illustrations from Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Seccombe's Comic Sketches from English History, published by W. H. Allen and Co., 1884. Click for Big.

The Landing of William the Conqueror

A Court Ball in the Eighteenth Century

Canute and His Courtiers

Richmond at Sea

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

Tickets to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

Aka the Columbian Exposition. Just take a look at that printing; you could be holding paper money from a small duchy. The first is from a recent listing by and the next two are from older listings by a different seller.

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Bicyclist Escaping Outlaw Band

From the April 20, 1898 issue of TRUTH magazine.

Wish I had a bigger version of it! You can still click it to enlarge it, only not very far.

Under the Shadow of Vesuvius

From an article of that name, by Edgar Fawcett, in the November, 1896 issue of COSMOPOLITAN magazine.

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Newspaper Poster 1896 Art Nouveau

Published by the New York Sunday World. Weekly posters were placed on newsstands and other places. This poster, for the April 12, 1896 edition, was listed on eBay in 2007. The design is in the commercial Art Nouveau style of its era.

Away, Cold Weather

Damn, it's not listening to me. We have the furnace fixed, and find that it costs about a dollar to raise the house temperature for a day. That's what we need to know.


Wrap up in blankets, and dream about the long-ago days of summer.



"A Water Party on the Thames," by A. W. Cooper, engraved by H. Harrall and printed in THE GRAPHIC for June 24, 1874. From the listings of eBay seller historicpaper2



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