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Richard Cobden (1804 - 1865), British manufacturer and leading figure of Manchester liberalism and the free trade movement. Wood engraving, published in 1865.
Busy roads of horse drawn carriages outside Royal Exchange and Bank of England
a vintage  Emperor Meji Mutsuhito photo postcard of 1900s,  ready for any usage of  historic events background usage.
Shoqan Walikhanov (1835-1865) portrait from old Kazakhstan banknote
Vintage photograph Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 19th Century. The seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Double exposure of portrait of U.S. presidents Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton
Portrait of Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (Paul Kruger), 3rd State President of the South African Republic (1825 - 1904). Vintage photo etching circa late 19th century.
Goddess Gig. In ancient Greek mythology goddess gives people health. The goddess is the daughter of the god of medicine Asclepius and his wife Epion.
Portrait of Professor Faraday (1791-1867)
Horse Guards - a historic building in the City of Westminster, London, on Whitehall\n\nBuilt in the mid-18th century as a barracks for the Household Cavalry. \n\nHorse Guards was the entrance to the Palace of Whitehall and St James's Palace;  still ceremonially defended by the King's Life Guard.
Christian IX, king of Denmark postcard, sent from Montevideo, Uruguay in 1904,  ready for any usage of  historic events background usage.
John of Saxony (1801-1873) ruled after the death of his brother Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, the Kingdom since 1854. He also worked as a translator under the pseudonym Philalethes. Wood engraving, published in 1854.
Vintage photograph Rough Riders, 1st Life Guards, Victorian British Army, 19th Century. The Life Guards (LG) is the senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry.
Simon Bolivar (1783 - 1830) Portrait from Venezuelan Banknotes. Venezuelan military and political leader
Portrait of Lawrence William Herchmer, 5th and last Commisioner of the North-West Mounted Police (1840 - 1915). Vintage photo etching circa late 19th century. The NWMP would become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
A 19th century illustration two native Greenland Eskimos in traditional dress entitled 'modern Eskimos'.
Image from 19th century.
London, England 1800s: The Natural History Museum exhibits a vast range of specimens of natural history. One of the museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, created by Prince Albert
Giuseppe Verdi  (1813 –   1901) was an Italian Romantic composer. His operas such as  Rigoletto,  La traviata,  Nabucco and Aida are as popular today as when they were first written Etching is from a 1877 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Battle in one of the biblical stories in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
Vintage photograph of Officer of the Highland Regiment, British Army, 19th Century
Jose Felix Ribas (1775 - 1815). Portrait from Venezuela Banknotes
Portrait of General Sir Redvers Henry Buller (1839 - 1908). Vintage photo etching circa late 19th century.
This vintage image by Houghton & Mifflin features the portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in 1888 it is now part of the public domain.
Lower Regent Street with horse drawn taxi and stagecoaches on road
Georges-Eugène Baron Haussmann (1809 - 1891) was prefect of the French department of Seine from 1853 to 1870, and is considered the Parisian city planner. By his building regulations, he gave to the town center century the modern Parisian cityscape, which is preserved to this day. Wood engraving, published in 1865.
Ninomiya Sontoku a closeup portrait from old Japanese yen
Antique photograph of Amédée Courbet a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) and the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885).
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