Historic Cultural Encounters

Engravings depicting native interactions with European settlers, religious pilgrimages, and cultural festivities from centuries past.

Illustration depicting the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. Dated 19th Century
Illustration depicting the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. Dated 19th Century
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Indian courtiers in conversation at the Hindu Pagoda of Vilnour. ;French; lithograph; India; By Marlet 1828
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Famine in Bengal, India. Praying to Nandi for relief. Nandi, devotee of Shiva, took the form of a bull. Stone statue of a bull outside temple dedicated to Shiva. Engraving,
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Germanic sacrificial altar; Sacrifice altar.Germanic Stones Sacrifici or Offert Table in The Forest.
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Afghanistan: 'Mosque of Coolaum Hoossein Huzrut-Jee, Kandahar', colour lithograph, Lieutenant James Rattray, 1848
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Egyptian antiques in Boulac, Egypt 19th Century. Engraving.
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Disabled and paralysed people lying outside a wall of the cemetery Santo Spirito in Rome begging for alms from passers-by. Coloured lithograph by F. Villain after A.J.-B. Thomas, 1823.
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Men resting their camels and smoking by the approach to Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.
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First Christian community. Ephesus city. Asia Minor. Engraving. Holy Bible, 19th century. (St. Paul times).
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Emigrants leave their village loading a wagon with their possessions, while the Church bestows its blessing. 1851
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Illustration depicting Japanese men playing Paume Japonais. Dated 19th century
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Funeral procession of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, actually Franz Hermann Schulze, 1808 - 1883, a German politician and the founder of the German cooperative system, on the long bridge in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, around 1885, historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century.
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Christmas, Common Walk to Church, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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Inhabitants of America. / EvoHner von America. / Instruction of America. / Habitants de l'Amerique. Leaf with 4 performances of pairs of different American peoples, including Indians, Greenlanders, Mexicans and Bolivians. Under each image a caption in four languages. Numbered at the bottom right: No. 9.
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The Tombstone of Sebastian Hniewkowski at the Wolszan Cemetery Near Prague. Cleastle from Tygodnik Ilustrowany 1862 (2) 84 unknown
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Kyrgyz tent, tent, Kyrgyz, live, round, men, woman, child, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, historical illustration 1885, Asia
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Eine riesige Hakari-Festbühne, Māori, Neuseeland, 19.
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Baptising scene. Near the White Fort, Hudson River. New-York.. Endicott & Swett. Prints. 1834. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.), baptisms , New York (State) , New York
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First Christian community. Ephesus city. Asia Minor. Engraving. Holy Bible, 19th century. (St. Paul times).
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The infant Moses is found by Pharaoh's daughter, floating on the Nile in a basket
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Laudons funeral in Hadersdorf on July , Johann Hieronymus Deleteenkohl -, publishing house
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The Awakening: Encampment of Pilgrims on Mount Saint-Odile, Woodcut Engraving from the Original Painting by Gustave Brion, The Masterpieces of French Art by Louis Viardot, Published by Gravure Goupil et Cie, Paris, 1882, Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia, 1883
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First Mass in America (Premiere Messe en Amerique) 1850 Henri Pierre Lon Blanchard (1805-1873/French) Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
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Indians on a coffee plantation washing in a lake and gathering together on the bank. Coloured lithograph by V. Adam, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
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Oath on the tennis court of the Jeu de Paume, 20 June 1789, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Europe
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Catimaron, East Indian raft, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain collective picture from ca 1900, Liebig picture series Ships III, (1893)
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Ark on Ararat, Noah's Ark, box, mountain, peak, seventh month, mountains, Bible, Old Testament, First Book of Moses, chapter 8, verse 4, historical illustration 1850
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From the plantation to the Senate, African-Americans
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre Date: circa 1835
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Weihnachten, gemeinsamer Spaziergang zur Kirche, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
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Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées: pilgrims gathered at the cave of Massabielle. Lithograph.
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Evening service near Chioggia in Italy, believers have come to the church by boat, after a painting by Hermann Corrodi, Italy, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original, Europe
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Mandinka (Mandingo) people dancing to drums in a festival in Dramanet, Kingdom of Galam (upper Senegal River). From Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Più Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.
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The Last War- Whoop Dying North American Indian giving his last war cry watched by settler he has wounded Lithograph by Currier and Ives, c. 1870
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The burial of Edward Pocock in hostile Turu, 1877 during Stanley's first Congo expedition, Central Africa. Journey to unexplored Africa, the mysterious continent by Henry Morton Stanley. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880
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Nerbudda in Guzerat, India