Historic Cultural Illustrations

Vintage illustrations depicting social interactions and festive scenes, showcasing historical figures and cultural themes from different eras.

Happy Christmas, Nostalgia Cards

11 / Nakes, bad guys, deliver us Lord!

William Penn making Friends with the Indians - Friends' Rolled Oats are the best! , Indigenous peoples, Men, Prepared cereals, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Happy Christmas, Nostalgia Cards

William Penn making Friends with the Indians - Friends' Rolled Oats are the best!. William Penn making Friends with the Indians - Friends' Rolled Oats are the best!

Catalunya. Felicitación de Navidad. L'escolà. Monaguillo encendiendo las velas de un altar antes de celebrarse la misa del gallo. Año 1935.

Bismarcks saying, God created man according to his image, but the Italian according to that of Judas Ischarjot, found another confirmation in the faithless broken word of May , Satirical picture on the faithbreak of Italy, Unknown

Death of Brother Nethelme

Vintage Christmas postcard of Santa Claus holding up a little girl

A question mark depicting a kneeling man putting on a chain on the neck of the eagle in the crown and the text below: Silesia must be ours; 1921 (1914-00-00-1939-00-00);

"Enlight'ning" the back parlor. ("Not from France"). "Enlight'ning" the back parlor. ("Not from France")

Saint Boniface, after felling the tree with the ax in his hand, holds a cross, the symbol of Christianity.

To the martyrs of freedom.

King David playing the harp surrounded by scribes and court musicians still image. Reproductive prints, Illuminations. 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. harps, David, King of Israel, Initials, Musicians , 700-799

Chicago Cottage Organs , Angels, Flowers, Pianos, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Santa Clause

Socialist prayer / for children

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Reproduction of a woodcut, 1861.

The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha

God on the Day of Judgment, with Saint John, sending naked sinners to be herded by demons into the mouth of Hell to be tormented. Handcoloured etching drawn and etched by Thomas Fisher from his Paintings on the Walls of the Chapel of the Trinity, Stratford upon Avon, 1808.

Dyngus , Restaurants, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

1895 political cartoon shows British and American missionaries preaching to a Chinese man. They are flanked by men and ships of the Royal and US navies. The title reads, 'According to the ideas of our missionary maniacs, the Chinaman must be converted, even if it takes the whole military and naval forces of the two greatest nations of the world to do it' (BSLOC_2017_20_1)

St Tryphon and life and sufferings

Vintage Christmas postcard of Santa Claus walking with a little girl holding a toy horse

The Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat, Mömpelgard Altarpiece, c. 1540, The Mömpelgard Altarpiece is a pictorial sermon on the life and work of Jesus Christ in the form of a Gospel harmony, Austria, Europe

Joyeux Noel c.1900 Nostalgia Cards

Postcard, historic, Santa Claus with skid, illustration,

Saint Gaetano in a church, holding the Bible. Colour lithograph.

Christmas Eve; Styfi, Jan (1839-1921), Kossak, Juliusz (1824-1899); 1876 (1876-00-00-1876-00-00);

A believer who carries many crosses, expresses his devotion for the Eucharist, before a little door in the Sacred Heart of Christ. Etching.

Coalition Christmas Mass, Johan Braakensiek, 1911 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. historical persons. Christmas tree

Woman kissing her son goodbye at their doorstep.. Woman kissing her son goodbye at their doorstep.

(8) / The Great Crucified !!! (IT)

Zouave. Zouave

Dutch 19th century illustration showing the coronation of the Virgin Mary with Jesus. Circa 1820

Indian Queen Perfume. Indian Queen Perfume

Liberty , Flags, Bells, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Returning Christ, Anonymous, 1864 - 1905 tissue stereograph Paris cardboard. paper albumen print / cutting symbolic representations of the Resurrection

Coins from different countries with symbolic persons, kopeks from Siberia, Historic, digital reproduction of a 19th century collector's picture

Cartoon - Salvation Army Christmas Fund Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

Czech auxiliary provincial association for patients with lung diseases in the Kingdom of Czech. .

Oath and loyalty to the homeland (IT)

Occasional postcard with hands holding the crown and saber, dates: 1830 29/November 1916 and text: sticker from the first November celebration in independent Poland; Fresh, Jan, National Department in Lublin; 1916 (1914-00-00-1939-00-00);

Russia and Europe, Russia and Asia, from coast to coast under the glorious standard of the Tsars (although not for long...) Date: 1917

Christmas card, 'A Merry Christmas', circa 1900s, Whanganui, by A.D. Willis Ltd.

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration, 1920's

Aristocrat priest fleeing the civic oath. (IT)

Postcard, invitation to a christening, 1890, Germany, Historic, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Piety mount

3 / large renewed banquet of Cana / To celebrate the baptism of the Republic (IT)

Menu of the Feast meal to celebrate of the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna by Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhaylovich (1848-1926) / Private Collection / 1896 / Russia / Colour lithograph / Poster and Graphic design /

Let all rejoice sweet Easter day.. Let all rejoice sweet Easter day.

Adoration of the wise men , Biblical events, Jesus Christ

Two physicians are reconciled by another, overseen by a duck-like parody of the Holy Ghost. Lithograph by F.E. Regamey after himself.

Church & Phalen, Troy, N. Y.. Church & Phalen, Troy, N. Y.

Inca festival. Peru. 16th cent. engraivng.

Simson and Delila, opera by Saint Saens, Simson cries, thou strong God, have mercy on me, strengthen me to consecrate this people to death, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Illustration showing the Serbian Pavilion, at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Inset is a portrait of King Alexander I of Serbia. This was a fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

Eastern sporters, young, aspire to send the bouyant globe higher, and, by their fervor in the game, prove, East or West, all boys the same. A merry Christmas.. Eastern sporters, young, aspire to send the bouyant globe higher, and, by their fervor in the game, prove, East or West, all boys the same. A merry Christmas.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Holy Thursday ca. 1825 William Blake British. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Holy Thursday 347962

Opportunity: journal of Negro life, January 1926, Front cover. Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981. Covers (Illustration). 1926-01. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African American art, Madonnas, Magi, Epiphany

Embroidery, England 19th century. Sampler, embroidered in cross-stitch on linen, with a prayer in the middle and far down a pastoral scene and the inscription Emma Susanna Matthew aged 13 years May 1839.

Turnhout, Brepols, Philippus Jacobus, Den kersnacht, La Noël, verso - stamped, The adoration by the shepherds, with the ox and the donkey on the right. In a ray of light the text 'Gloria in excelsis deo'. In the four corners representations of the Annunciation, the proclamation to the shepherds, the adoration by the kings and the journey to Bethlehem. Numbered lower left: No. 66., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 342 mm, width 393 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Belgisch, 1778 - 1845, publisher, uitgever, 1800 - 1833, paper, papier, houtsnede, kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker

Mary & her little lamb. What made the lamb love Mary so What made its fleece as white as snow Why "Soapine did it" don't you know.. Mary & her little lamb. What made the lamb love Mary so What made its fleece as white as snow Why "Soapine did it" don't you know.

Illustration by Henri Caruchet (1873-1948); for 'La Légende de soeur Béatrix' by Charles Nodier (1780-1844), 1903. coloured plate illustration with borders and ornaments. This is Nodier's short story based on the legend of the medieval Sister Beatrice of the convent of Notre-Dame des Épines-Fleurie (Jura), a passionate young woman who left the community to marry a knight, only returning after bearing him several children.

The Annunciation ..

The banquet , Banquets, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Christ in the Hof van Getsemane, Anonymous, 1864 - 1905 tissue stereograph Paris cardboard. paper albumen print agony of Christ: to comfort him one or more angels appear to Christ with chalice and/or cross

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton , Women, Angels, Thread, Cotton, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Bringing home bundles of mistletoe and holly. Date: 1906

Three crosses on Golgota, Anonymous, 1864 - 1905 tissue stereograph Paris cardboard. paper albumen print / cutting crucified Christ, with particular persons under the cross - DD - the three crosses

New Year's wish from Father A. Duijvestijn, Anonymous, c. 1950 - c. 2000 photomechanical print Abstracted religious performance. paper printing block Christmas (ecclesiastical feast). New Year's Eve (December 31)

Magic poster - Chevalier Nic Illusion

The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.

'A merry Christmas.' , People, Snowshoes, 19th Century American Trade Cards

The banquet , Banquets, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Buy your holiday goods of Wm. H. Frear, the "Trojan Santa Claus," and save money. Santa Claus' headquarters, Frear's Troy Bazaar.. Buy your holiday goods of Wm. H. Frear, the "Trojan Santa Claus," and save money. Santa Claus' headquarters, Frear's Troy Bazaar.

Has His Excellency Mr. Thiers, Head of the Executive Power of the Rural Republic. / The spectra.

To native ..

cartoon by Jules Maurice Radiguet (1866 -1941) also known under the pseudonym Rad, illustrator, caricaturist and author French cartoon. Depicting Pope Pius X (head of the Catholic Church from August 1903 to his death in 1914)

Ilya Muromets (Elijah of Murom) - a Kievan Rus epic hero. He is celebrated in numerous byliny (folk epic poems). Along with Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich he is regarded as the greatest of all the legendary bogatyrs (the medieval knights-errant of Kievan Rus). Date: 1902

The Holy Mountain Athos by Fesenko, Yefim Ivanovich (1850-1926) State History Museum, Moscow 1885 Colour lithograph Ukraine Cartography Landscape,Bible,History Graphic arts

Good Angel's Visit - A Tale of Scovil's Sarsaralilla, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Stranded, Pirates

Christmas Greetings Nostalgia Cards

postcard, Invitation to the baptism, 1890, Germany / Postkarte, Einladung zur Taufe, 1890, Deutschland, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

We Want Our Rights! 1913. Magazine cover showing a Susan B. Anthony-like figure in classical dress thrusting an umbrella at a man in a toga. Another woman holds sign reading "We want our rights.". Rea Irvin

Easter Greetings Nostalgia Cards

Mason & Hamlin, church, chapel & parlor organs. Standard of the world.. Mason & Hamlin, church, chapel & parlor organs. Standard of the world.

Knights of Pythias - knightly greetings! Circa 1872

Christ on the Cross. Coloured woodcut and letterpress.

The Nativity by J. Crescom

Righteous path in Life

Zacharias on the mulberry tree

And old woman plucking a Thanksgiving Turkey. American Postcard. 1909

The resurrection, by Alfred the little one.

Capac The first Inca at Sun Festival. PERU.

Francia. Grandes Cultures. Colección de cromos franceses. Cosecha del trigo por los campesinos. Años 1950.

Hermit Johannes Genuwit in De Wildernis, Jan Luyken, 1701 print In the foreground, the hermit John Genuwit prays to his knees in the wilderness. There are hermit's hut in the background. Around the print five columns with Dutch text in book print. Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing anchorite, hermit

Glad Tidings, American Journals - Frank Leslie's

Cloth-of-Gold Crocus, Beetle, and Foxglove.

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