Vintage Photography Collections

A variety of historical photos capturing architectural landmarks, daily life scenes, and natural landscapes, presented in monochrome and sepia tones to evoke nostalgia.

In this photograph, a range correction board can be seen on the left, with a range prediction board on the right. The range correction board is used to adjust the plotter's range for various factors such as powder and atmosphere correction, tide correction, and the travel of the target. This information is then sent to the gunner for accurate shooting. The picture was taken by S.C. Combs, a photographer for the military.

Description: Malaya in Monochrome. A Souvenir of the British Empire Exhibition. Date: 1924 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens

Description: A portion of receptacle of Ram's Horn. French cod room No. 4. Rouge. Location: Rouge, Canada Date: 1892 americas

In this photograph, a range correction board can be seen on the left, with a range prediction board on the right. The range correction board is used to adjust the plotter's range for various factors such as powder and atmosphere correction, tide correction, and the travel of the target. This information is then sent to the gunner for accurate shooting. The picture was taken by S.C. Combs, a photographer for the military.

Housing row with a board of Van Houten's cocoa, presumably in Amsterdam, Anonymous, c. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph. contact print Part of photo album with 35 photos of Amsterdam, people and animals. Amsterdam paper. photographic support the usual house or row of houses Amsterdam

Sala mine and silver plant chronology.sala silver mine.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

Miscellaneous generally about mountain historical material.

New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Engineering. Cartographic, Maps. 1924. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. New York (N.Y.) 1A - N.Y. City (Aerial Set).

Face from a fort in Alexandria, in or after 1882 - in or before 1885 photomechanical print New York (city) paper collotype fortress. firearms: cannon

Face in Muntok, Robert Julius Boers, 1900 - 1922 stereograph View from the mintok mine engineer on Banka. Part of a group of stereo photos of Robert Julius Boers, chief of the state-owned company De Banka-Tinwinning on Banka, from the period ca. 1900-1922. Bangka photographic support. cardboard Bangka. Muntok

Kok (Toekan Mendjait) at work in a room of (presumably) N.V. Hotel Me. De Boer in Medan, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. While paper. photographic support gelatin silver print kitchen-personnel. hotel, hostelry, inn While

Site of proposed Quaker Bridge Dam and reservoir, P. de Luze, c. 1883 - in or before 1887 photomechanical print New YorkNew York (city) paper collotype river Croton

Monument voor Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn, in or after 1891 - in or before 1902 photograph Album magazine with a photo of the monument for the American theologian and preacher Henry Ward Beecher in Borough Hall Park in Brooklyn. Part of family album with mainly photos of a young American girl. BrooklynUnited States of America paper. photographic support gelatin silver print historical persons. monument, statue Brooklyn

Agra city. .

OS belonging to Mount Pleasant, Anonymous, c. 1912 - c. 1913 photograph OS from a plantation Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Part of the photo album from ca. 1912-1913 with 92 photos of the Peperpot and Dordrecht plantations in Suriname and Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Curaçao photographic support. paper plantation. ox Curaçao. Plantage Mount Pleasant

Postcard to Willem Bogtman, Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1928 Juan-les-pins cardboard. ink writing (processes) / pen / collotype

Pages 28 and 29 of the Photo Book of the General Association of Rubber Planters at the east coast of Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.), c. 1924 - c. 1925 photograph Two book pages with the left a photo of V. Ris, first chairman of the General Association of Rubberplanters in the east coast of Sumatra (a.v.r.o.s.). And on the right information about the risfonds named after him. Part of a photo album of the General Association of Rubber Planters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.). SumatraSumatraprinter: Dutch East Indies, The paper. photographic support printing (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber. laboratory. public library Sumatra

Description: A part of the Hyde Park Road East Bank. Location: Guyana Date: 1921 guyana, caribbeanthroughalens

Two postcards of a visit from Queen Wilhelmina after the flood disaster of 1906 and a pram, Anonymous, 1906 - 1909 photomechanical print. photograph This print and photo are part of an album. Breda cardboard. baryta paper gelatin silver print queen. flood. baby-carriage, pram, perambulator Tholen

Description: 2.4.92 Date: 02 April 1892 sierraleone, bafodia, africa

Caption: "Lt. Drucker, captured in photo number 111-SC-39591, stands in the pantry located in the rear of Mrs. Wilson's bedroom in the home of Prince Murat, which was occupied by President Wilson during their stay in Paris, France. Image received on 3-12-19 by photographer S.C. 39591."

Description: "South Georgia". Location: South Georgia, Falkland Islands Date: February 1928

Description: Malaya in Monochrome. A Souvenir of the British Empire Exhibition. Date: 1924 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens

Large copper mountain chronology. From Carl Sahlin's mountain historical collection.

Description: The Matron and Immates of the Poor Houses. Location: Virgin Islands Date: 1887 caribbean, britishvirginislands, caribbeanthroughalens

Swimming device Th. van Heemstede Obelt on the De Ruijterkade at the Oosterdok passage, Anonymous, c. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph. contact print Part of photo album with 35 photos of Amsterdam, people and animals. Amsterdam paper. photographic support swimming (sport) Amsterdam

Description: 13.4.92 Date: 13 April 1892 sierraleone, africa, rotata

Advertising board in a field during the world exhibition in St. Louis (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), 1904. Advertising board in a field during the world exhibition in St. Louis (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), 1904.

Study, 1870 - 1923 Amsterdam paper. pencil

Newspaper clipping from the Philip Zilcken archive, Anonymous, 1867 - 1930 paper. printing ink printing

Sinaitic Inscriptions in Wadee El-Mukattab. Francis Frith (English, 1822 - 1898)

View of south-eastern part of cemetery. (Coal-fleet in distance.) Histrionographs, and gems of southern scenery in and around Vicksburg. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi, Vicksburg (Miss.)

Roman cemetery near Split, Franz Thiard de Laforest, c. 1868 - in or before 1878 photograph Split-Dalmatia county photographic support albumen print churchyard, cemetery

Views during a flight around the earth through the LZ127, Anonymous, 1929 photograph Six photos taken during a flight around the earth, including faces on the Jennishej, Jaboetsk. All photos are provided with a number and title. This page is part of an album. paper. photographic support gelatin silver print city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions. mountains. river Siberia

Title: Peace Announcement Ignites Wild Celebration in New York City Caption: The first report of Peace in New York provoked an unprecedented celebration, with business coming to a halt and crowds flooding the streets in exultation. As masses from business establishments, hotels, and homes joined in, this photograph captures the sheer euphoria that marked this momentous event in the city's history.

OS belonging to Mount Pleasant, Anonymous, c. 1912 - c. 1913 photograph Os of the Plantage Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Part of the photo album from ca. 1912-1913 with 92 photos of the Peperpot and Dordrecht plantations in Suriname and Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Curaçao photographic support. paper plantation. ox Curaçao. Plantage Mount Pleasant

Description: The New Black Rod of the Legislative Council of New Zealand. Presented by the Governor-General March 1931. Location: New Zealand Date: March 1931 newzealand, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens

Printing office, anonymous, c. 1870 - in or before 1880 photograph San Lazzaro degli Armeni paper albumen print printing, printing office San Lazzaro degli Armeni

Stuttgart from the home of the Wachenheimer family on the Hauptmannsreute, 1936-1937, Stuttgart, Wachenheimer (Possible) family, 1936 - 1937 photograph Albumblad contains four photos. Without people related to the Wachenheimer family. From small format photo album, blue leather cover with push button closure. With photos in small format. Stuttgart paper. photographic support gelatin silver print public road Stuttgart

Vaals, Anonymous, 1949 photograph Album magazine with four photos at the three -country point at Vaals. Under the photos cut out papers with typed inscriptions. Part of the first photo album with photos of the two bike rides of father and son through the Netherlands in September 1939 and July 1940 and a car trip with the family through the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in June 1949. Vaals paper. photographic support gelatin silver print outing, pleasure trip. the family travelling, on holiday Vaals

Reconquest of New Mexico. Original caption: The Leading Facts of New Mexico History, by R. E. Twitchell, Vol. 1, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1911.

Joseph Packard, Fish Hill Cemetery, lot 56, Prescott, Mass., Aug. 18, 1937 : Unknown, U-1340; U-1390 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, cemeteries

Dumbarton Presbytery Group. Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848)

Flood, 1930 - 1939 photograph Black album magazine with four photos of the damage caused by floods (Bandjir), probably on Celebes. The photos are numbered 79-81. Part of the loose -leaf photo album over the brothers of Tilburg on Celebes and Sumatra. Celebes paper. photographic support gelatin silver print landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical regions. flood Celebes

Höganäs coal grapes chronology.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

Description: Photographs and diagrams to accompany 'Change and Continuity in Bemba Society' by Ann Tweedie, 1960s. africa

Dellagana & Co., B., The Daily Task, Woman with a Bucket, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Supplement to 'The Practical Photographer, ' Dec. 1st, 1890., height 91 mm, width 122 mm, photographer, 1885 - 1890, paper, papier, autotype, clichémaker

Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, looking west in Quabbin Aqueduct at Sta. 723+97 on south wall, west of the Ware River Intake, Barre, Mass., Oct. 7, 1937

Description: Rushing a Sand Dune. Car is over the crest successfully & the Down hill run presents no diffulty. Location: Jebel Tubaik, Turkey Date: 1890-1899 Description: A frequent occurence. The twin back wheels of the Ford dug in on the slightest provocation. Location: Jebel Tubaik, Turkey Date: 1890-1899 Description: Some of the sand dunes in Tubaik defeat even the Camel Tread tyres. Location: Jebel Tubaik, Turkey Date: 1890-1899 europe, europethroughalens

Sketch showing suggested development for Pool Hill area, Rockport , Parks

Description: Barambah. Chas Beathe. Auburn. Lena Davis Location: Barambah, Queensland, Australia Description: Barambah. Spiko. Nellie. Mitchell River Location: Barambah, Queensland, Australia Description: Barambah. Spiko. Nellie. Mitchell River Location: Barambah, Queensland, Australia australia, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens

Panel with background information for the public in the educational service information center; Exhibition French church windows. .

Description: Samba water (Upper Waterloo st. - Pademba Rd.) October 1936. Date: October 1936 africa

Argentina. State: Argentina.

Rotterdam!, anonymous, 1940 photograph Album magazine with three photos of bombed Rotterdam and the wreck of the Statendam, June 1940. Part of the photo album 'Kriegszeit in Holland' about the service time in the Netherlands by Hans Heinemann from a Flak Regiment of the Luftvertigungskommando of the Luftwaffe. Rotterdam paper. photographic support gelatin silver print devastated, ruined place or city (~ warfare) Rotterdam

Description: St John's Water Supply. See No. 8. Location: Antigua Date: 1910 antigua, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Description: Fish flakes. A panorama taken from (A) on the enclosed chart, looking to NE. French fishing rooms. No. 2 & 3. Rouge. Location: Rouge, Canada Date: 1892 americas

Contract No. 56, Administration Buildings, Main Dam, Belchertown, tiling in first floor toilet, Main Building, Belchertown, Mass., Jun. 10, 1938

Market stalls for the Waaggebouw on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam, Anonymous, c. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph. contact print Part of photo album with 35 photos of Amsterdam, people and animals. New market paper. photographic support weigh-house. market Nieuwmarkt. Waag on the Nieuwmarkt

Puerto Bello, Port of Santiago del Príncipe. Original caption: The Land Divided, Gerstle Mack, page 51, New York, 1944.

Bierhaven / Bolwerk with Maasbrug / Koestraat, Alie Rondberg-Vraudêunt, 1940 photograph Album magazine with two postcards and a photo of the Bierhaven, the stronghold with the Maas bridges and Koestraat, before and after the bombing of Rotterdam. Part of the photo album about the destruction of Dutch cities and infrastructure at the start of the Second World War. Rotterdam cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print non-combatants ~ war. devastated, ruined place or city (~ warfare) Rotterdam. Bierhaven. Willemspoorbrug. Willemsbrug. Stronghold

Image captured on 2/28/1919 by Sgt. Tyrell. The photo depicts a front view of a Universal motion picture camera, used for both still and moving pictures. This particular camera is for official use only and has the identification number 39985.

Description: Malaya in Monochrome. A Souvenir of the British Empire Exhibition. Date: 1924 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens

Photo collection Deli Society. Photo album Deli Society: "Deli in word and image" (1905). Collection Photo collection Deli Society, photo number 845_41. 1905. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Natchez Trace. Original caption: Taken by J. K. Hillers, October 1936. State: Tennessee.

New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Engineering. Cartographic, Maps. 1924. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. New York (N.Y.) 29D - N.Y. City (Aerial Set).

Description: Chinese Secretary mounted Location: China Date: 1903 Description: A rest by the roadside Location: China Date: 1903 Description: The Tablet presented to Duke Cofucius Location: China Date: 1903 Description: The Tablet and Goblet prensented to Duke Confucius Location: China Date: 1903 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Description: Agriculture. C.D.& W. Scheme D.2446 & A Staff and Buildings. Another view of the Laboratory Block at Central Farm. Location: Belize Date: 1950-1959 Description: ############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### Location: Belize Date: 1950-1959 belize, caribbean, britishhonduras, caribbeanthroughalens

No. 345 McCutcheon & Co., McKnight Realty Co. - No. 257 B. Altman, dry goods.. Photographs. 1911. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. New York (N.Y.), Streets, Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.), Buildings, Carriages & coaches , New York (State) , New York, Dry goods stores, B. Altman & Co., Sidewalks

Disembarkation in Surabaya, 1949 photograph Album magazine with four photos of the men during their disembarkation in Surabaya. From their previous location Priok they were taken to Surabaya by ship. Part of the photo album 'My years in India' with photos about the military actions in the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies, The cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print troop movements, transportation Dutch East Indies, The. Surabaya

Plymouth Tercentenary celebration, two images: memorial seat on Cole's Hill, presented by the Pennsylvania Society of New England, dedicated August 31, 1921 and a sprig of Mayflower , Anniversaries, Monuments & memorials, Flowers. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York. After Ezra Greenleaf Weld (American, 1801 - 1874)

Pages 136 and 137 of the Photo Book of the General Association of Rubber Planters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.), c. 1924 - c. 1925 photograph Two book pages with a photo of women working on a field with young coffee planting on Sumatra (Dutch-Indian Land Syndicate) and on the right information about the coffee culture. Part of a photo album of the General Association of Rubber Planters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.). SumatraSumatraprinter: Dutch East Indies, The paper. photographic support printing (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber. coffee. field filled with a crop. working class, labourers - AA - women Sumatra

Pages 100 and 101 of the Photo Book of the General Association of Rubber Planters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.), c. 1924 - c. 1925 photograph Two book pages with on the left a photo of fields with young tea plant on Sumatra (Dutch-Indian Land Syndicate) and on the right information about tea culture. Part of a photo album of the General Association of Rubber Planters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.). SumatraSumatraprinter: Dutch East Indies, The paper. photographic support printing (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber. plantation. tea (leaves) Sumatra

Homesteads - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Description: Specimens of our lads work. africa

Information panel about valoist carpets from Florence; Willem van Oranje exhibition - To freedom of conscience ..

Pages 10 and 11 of the Photo Book of the General Association of Rubber Planters at the east coast of Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.), c. 1924 - c. 1925 photograph Two book pages with a picture of the interior of a barrack for workers ('Hong') in Medan and on the right information about the Java Immigranten Bureau (J.I.B.). Part of a photo album of the General Association of Rubber Planters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.). MedanSumatraprinter: Dutch East Indies, The paper. photographic support printing (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber. barracks While

Kiskatinaw River bridge, a treated timber truss structure; Provincial road leading south from Alaska Highway about mile D-8. Original caption: 43-3104 - (figure 15) Kiskatinaw River bridge, a treated timber truss structure. This stream is also called the Cutbank, apparently because of the precipitous slopes that are barren of vegetation, evidencing slides. Mile D-20. September 1943. Original caption: 43-3105 - (figure 16) Provincial road leading south from Alaska Highway about mile D-8. Local newspapers refer to these unsurfaced roads as "mud roads". September 1943. State: Alaska.

Group portrait of the Regent of Wonosobo, European visitors and staff, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. Java paper. photographic support gelatin silver print ruler, sovereign. interior of the house Java

Photo collection Deli Society. Photo album Deli Society: Oil teams Culture Society T.I.O (1936-1938). Collection Photo collection Deli Society, photo number 840_21. 1936

Description: Crack, indicated by red arrows, in the West wall of Nave in line with the South wall of Nave Location: Bethlehem, Palestine Date: 20 September 1932

Ella F. Thresher, barn, etc., Hardwick, Mass., Jan. 26, 1928 : Parcel no. 311-9, Ella F. Thresher; also a henhouse, very poor , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, barns, automobiles

Views of the Boston Harbor Islands , Boston Harbor Islands Mass., Aerial views, Aerial views Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

View of bronze tablet, Quabbin Reservoir Intake, Hardwick, Mass., Mar. 9, 1948 , waterworks, aqueducts, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, tablets information artifacts

Poelzig Hans (1869-1936), exhibition of porcelain Volkstedter models according to designs by Poelzig and Moeschke in the Kunsthalle, Mannheim (without year): Console. Photo on paper, 11.1 x 22.5 cm (including scan edges)

Description: Agriculture. Citrus Price Assistance Scheme. The picture shows the Pomona Factory inset amid the Citrus Groves of the Stann Creek Valley. Location: Stann Creek, Belize Date: 1950-1959 Description: Agriculture. Citrus Price Assistance Scheme. Citrus price Assistance Scheme. Young Orange trees in the foreground were planted to fill the welfare juice concentrate contract. In the background are old Grape-Fruit trees. Location: Belize Date: 1950-1959 belize, caribbean, britishhonduras, caribbeanthroughalens

Drawing, Designs for Souvenir Fans for the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle; France; transparent and some opaque watercolor, white gouache on off-white wove paper; Left: 6.5 x 10 cm (2 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.) Right: 7 x 10.7 cm (2 3/4 x 4 3/16 in.)

Family photos, Anonymous, 1938 - 1939 photograph Album magazine with twelve photos of the Vonk, portraits and various outings family. Part of the family album by Jet Vonk from Celebes. Celebes photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print outing, pleasure trip. family life at home Celebes

Freelove and Abram Packard, Packardsville Cemetery, lot 54, Enfield, Mass., Apr. 26, 1938 : Mrs. Ida Hunt, Q-920 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, cemeteries

Entrance to a cave, with text board ..

Newspaper clipping about fire in youth center, COC, 1969 Leaf Perkamijn on which is stuck a newspaper clipping from the Haagsche Courant of 1 July 1969 about a fire in the youth center 'Space Center', where the COC department The Hague had given another performance on 5 June. Part of the photo album of cabaret performances COC 1968-1974, The Hague department. The Hague Glassine cabaret. on fire, ablaze The Hague

Description: Swaziland 1951, African life, agriculture, education, public works and personalities. Location: Swaziland Date: 1951 africa

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Test op de munster van Freiburg, new photographic society, c. 1900 - in OR Before 1911 Freiburg cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print Munster van Freiburg Freiburg cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print Munster van Freiburg

Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, geologic formation at Sta. 1253+00, east heading of Shaft 12, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Apr. 21, 1933

Description: Central Province. Charcoal burning in the Kiambu Reserve. Location: Central Province, Kenya africa

Description: Forestry. C. D. & W. Scheme D2436. 1956 Savanna plantation showing road grid and main drains (diagonals). Each square block is about 75 acres. Location: Belize Date: 1950-1959 Description: Forestry. C. D. & W. Scheme D1861. New labour camp in part of Melinda Forest Station (foreground). Corner of 1957 Pine plantation on right, Melinda airstrip middle right. Location: Belize Date: 1950-1959 belize, caribbean, britishhonduras, caribbeanthroughalens

Box and Stool. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Showcase with books, documents and an honorary chain; Herman Willem Daendels 1762 - 1818..

Antwerp. Museum Plantijn - Moretus, Anonymous, 1860 - 1925 photograph photographic support collotype Museum Plantin-Moretus

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