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A certificate of merit from a British temperance society, dated 18th December 1912. (All identifying details removed.)
Old page of a medieval latin script
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An antique copy of the Hebrew scriptures and New Testament Bible from the 1800's.  Detail shot of the Lord's Prayer as taught to his disciples.
Hand-written medical notes. Medical writing or publishing.
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
Closeup 200 Romanian Lei banknote for design purpose
Image from 1894 French book, about the New Adventures of the nephew of Robinson. Black and white illustrations of the era and culture of maritime advenure.\nHer we see an admiral courting and taking his hat of to a beautiful lady, by a stone bench.
Red siskin Pattern Design on Venezuelan Bolivar Currency
Digital painting of the Llanddwyn island lighthouse, Twr Mawr at Ynys Llanddwyn on Anglesey, North Wales.
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
Yateley, Hampshire, UK - 28 September, 2012: Mail stamp printed in the UK featuring the famous 19th century masterpiece painting, The Hay Wain, by John Constable, circa 1968
A framed version of the Ten Commandments inside the pretty church of St Botolph in the village of Culpho, Suffolk, Eastern England. The church dates from the 14th century but has had much more recent sympathetic interior restoration.
illustration from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1897
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
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Aged handwritten manuscript text. Calligraphy on old paper, vintage background
Priestess Mucha a portrait from Czech money
Vintage blank postcard from portsmouth USA in early 1900s, a very good background for any usage of the historic postcard communications.
A closeup banknote detail background
An old Victorian document dated 1878 containing instructions on how to make claret jelly.
The Iguazu Falls are the largest waterfall system in the world. Stretching almost 3km along the border of Argentina and Brazil, the falls are made up of roughly 275 different vertical drops, with heights varying from 60 meters - 82 meters. This makes the Iguazu Falls taller than Niagara Falls and twice as wide.
Picturesque England with scene from Lake District from out-of-copyright 1891 book \
London, England 1800s:  Holland House, aka Cope Castle, early Jacobean country house in Kensington, London, Situated in a area now known as Holland Park. Built in 1605 by the diplomat Sir Walter Cope
Old Victorian newspaper page, notices and advert, 1870, 19th Century
Close view of a US postage stamp issued to commemorate 400ths anniversary of his birth.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Dublin, Ireland - July 16, 1986: 1980s old Positive Film scanned, Inscription next to kilKenny shop at Nassau Street, Dublin, Ireland.    “I who have copied down this story, or more accurately fantasy, do not credit the details of the story, or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some are poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots.”\n\n― Thomas Cahill
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