This is an old French advertising lithograph from the Bruyas establishments for their “Trois Six Quatre Huit” hat brand, dating from around 1900 or 1908. The humorous image illustrates ...
Army orphanage: ensuring orphans. Woman with head down cradled in her left arm on a table (left). Three children around table on opposite side (right). Text continues: “Le foyer ...
Vero disegno della nobilissima Citta di Portiers. English: True design of the most noble City of Portiers. The City of Poitiers in the 16th century was located in west-central ...
French warrior fights German eagle. Collection American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Il disegno del discoperto della noua Franza. English: The drawing of the discovery of the new France.
Victor Turquan (1857-19?) headed the French Statistical Bureau from 1887 to 1896. He wrote numerous works on economic and demographic statistics, which included maps with graded coloration and iso-lines ...
Descrittione del Ducato di Savoia novamente posto in luce in Venetia. English: Description of the Duchy of Savoy brought to light again in Venice
For victory subscribe to the National Loan. Subscriptions are taken in Paris and in the Provinces at the Banque Nationale de Crédit. Three commanders overseeing an army in motion, ...
The 16th-century map Galiae Belgicae Romae depicts the Roman province of Gallia Belgica as understood by Renaissance scholars who sought to recover and visualize the geography of antiquity. Created ...
The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, were French inventors and pioneers of cinema in the late 19th century. In 1895, they created the Cinématographe, a device that could record, ...
Marne, Yser, Somme, Verdun: the dawn. Soldier with tattered flag with two women Collection American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
National Defense Loan: don’t forget to subscribe… for victory! … and the return. Woman with three children (small girl holding french flag, small boy has wooden sword) looking at ...
Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the most famous Gothic cathedrals in the world, located on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris. Built between the ...
Ritratto della fortezza di Ghines. English: Portrait of the fortress of Ghines
Original title: Grandes routes commerciales du Sahara Prime meridian: Paris. “Bulletin de la Société de géographie, 2e trimestre, 1890.” Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ...
Serbia Day June 25, 1916 – Anniversary of the Battle of Kossovo. Bridge in background with group of people walking or marching. Women, men and children (not soldiers). Ox ...
The kids in the ruins. Group of children playing by ruins, marching with toy swords and helmets. Girl holding smaller girl in forground, sitting on rubble. Collection American Geographical ...
The Liberation Loan. The allied flags bearing down on Kaiser Wilhelm II. Collection American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
In lower margin: Britannia, full of Rage almost forgets Ireland. Spain, smoking, leans on poor Portugal. France fighting the invader, Prussia, which stretches one hand towards Holland the other ...
We’ll get them! The 2nd National Defense Loan. Subscribe. Soldier sideways, looking like he is running forward and looking back, with gun in his right handand hisleft arm raised ...