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Heritage Images Collection (#88)

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Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Two By Two

Two By Two
Noah and his sons collect two of every animal and herd them onto the ark in order to save them from the flood, circa 4000 BC. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Protesting The Stamp Act

Protesting The Stamp Act
Colonists protest the Stamp Act imposed by England on the American colonies and hold aloft a banner, Englands Folly, Americas Ruin, in New York, November 1, 1765

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Dragging Coal

Dragging Coal
A shackled woman and child dragging a container of coal along a mineshaft, 1842. (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Canine Heroes

Canine Heroes
A pair of Saint Bernards at the Hospice of Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, circa 1955. These famous dogs have saved the lives of many travellers lost in the area

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Canine Patrol

Canine Patrol
A team of Saint Bernards patrols for travellers lost in the snow, circa 1955. Based at the Hospice of Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, these famous dogs have saved many lives in the area

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Junction Of St. Lawrence & Ottawa Rivers

Junction Of St. Lawrence & Ottawa Rivers
Engraving depicts the junction of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers with two large rafts, each steered by six people, afloat in the central channel, Ontario, circa 1800s

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Battle On Lake Superior

Battle On Lake Superior
Engraving depicts a battle fought on canoes on Lake Superior between Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Sacs and Fox tribes, circa 1800s. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: View Along The St. Lawrence River

View Along The St. Lawrence River
Engraving depicts a view of the St. Lawrence River with several canoes in the distance, Ontario, circa 1800s. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Objiwe Fishing On The Columbia River

Objiwe Fishing On The Columbia River
Engraving depicts Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe members fishing on the Columbia River, while in the background one man carries a canoe on his shoulders, Oregon, circa 1800s. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ojibwe Repairing A Canoe

Ojibwe Repairing A Canoe
Engraving depicts an Ojibwe (Chippewa) camp on the bank of a river, circa 1800s. The tribe members use bark to repair their damaged canoe. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ojibwe Family With Wagon

Ojibwe Family With Wagon
Engraving depicts an Ojibwe (Chippewa) family in a field with a wagon of belongings, circa 1800s. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Evil Brood

Evil Brood
E en in like manner Adams evil brood cast themselves, one by one, down from the shore. Charon the ferryman beats the stragglers on the shores of Acheron

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Hideous Harpies

Hideous Harpies
Virgil leads the author through a wood filled with Harpies and miserable souls transformed into trees. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XIII of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Circle Of Serpents

Circle Of Serpents
The other two looked on, exclaiming Ah! How does thou change, Agnello!. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XXV of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Dantes Vision

Dantes Vision
Now seest thou, son! The souls of those whom anger overcame. Virgil leads the author past souls writing in torment in the River Styx

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Mutilated Shades

Mutilated Shades
Virgil leads the author past a group of wretched souls contemplating their missing limbs and heads. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XXIX of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: New York At Night

New York At Night
An aerial view of New York at night, circa 1955. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Dizzy Buildings

Dizzy Buildings
A worms eye view of the World Trade Center (World Trade Centre), New York under construction, 1971. (Photo by R. Viner/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Church Sanctuary

Church Sanctuary
The exterior walls of the sanctuary of a modernist church building, circa 1956. The wall consists of five twenty-foot wide folds, which give the structure great strength and a distinctive apearance

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: New York Silhouette

New York Silhouette
The Brooklyn Bridge silhouetted against the Manhattan skyline, circa 1955. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Battle Of Manila

Battle Of Manila
A painting called the Battle of Manila depicts the US Naval fleet on its way to the engage Spanish fleet during the Spanish American War, Manila Bay, Philippines, May 1, 1898

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Bayonet Line

Bayonet Line
Bayonets at the ready, a group of soldiers in the Spanish American War stand to defend their camp, circa 1899. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Parade Of Cuban Soldiers

Parade Of Cuban Soldiers
Cuban soldiers, who faught on the American side during the Spanish-American War, parade in uniform down a street, circa 1898. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Capture Of San Juan Hill

Capture Of San Juan Hill
Painting depicts a charge by American troops that led to the capture of the strategically important San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, Cuba, July 1, 1898

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Clarissa And Lovelace

Clarissa And Lovelace
Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace take a stroll through Hampstead, circa 1740. An illustration from an early 19th century edition of the 1748 epistolary novel Clarissa, or

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Borough Market

Borough Market
Crowds flock to Londons Borough Market on Christmas Eve, with Southwark Cathedral in the background, circa 1850. From a drawing by G Dodgson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: En Route To Ascot

En Route To Ascot
Coaches make their way down the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, on their way to Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire on Cup Day, 1871. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: The Road To Ascot

The Road To Ascot
Racegoers on their way to Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, 1846. Entitled A Sketch on the Road. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ascot

Ascot
Cup Day at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, 1889. The Masses and the Classes by Sydney P. Hall. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ascot Heath Races

Ascot Heath Races
Spectators at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, June 1791. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ascot Racecourse

Ascot Racecourse
The racecourse and Grand Stand at Ascot in Berkshire, 1846. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: En Route To Ascot

En Route To Ascot
Coaches make their way down the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, on their way to Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, 1846. Entitled The Road to the Races. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ascot Luncheon

Ascot Luncheon
Luncheon time behind the Grand Stand at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, 1872. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 15th June 1872 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Ascot Heath Races

Ascot Heath Races
A race at Ascot in Berkshire, 1820. Drawn and engraved by James Pollard. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga
A hut in Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia, 19th century. Butcher Arthur Orton, also known as Thomas Castrolate, subject of the famous Tichborne Claimant trial is said to have lived here

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Surrendered U-Boats

Surrendered U-Boats
A stereo card image of German submarines moored at Harwich at the end of World War I, November 1918. The vessels were surrendered to Britain under the terms of the armistice signed by Germany

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Allied Reserves

Allied Reserves
A stereo card image of Allied reserve troops moving past a knocked out tank towards the front line during World War I, France, circa 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Crossing The Canal Du Nord

Crossing The Canal Du Nord
A stereo card image of Allied troops using an improvised bridge to cross the Canal du Nord, during the Battle of the Canal du Nord, on the outskirts of Cambrai in northern France, September 1918

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Cato Street Executions

Cato Street Executions
The Cato Street conspirators are hanged and beheaded outside Newgate Prison, London, 1st May 1820, for their part in the plot to kill the entire British cabinet in revenge for the Peterloo massacre

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Aerial Of Valley Of The Kings Excavations

Aerial Of Valley Of The Kings Excavations
Aerial view of Howard Carters archaeological excavations of the tombs of the Pharoahs Ramesses VI and Tutankhamen (better known as King Tut), Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, 1922

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni
A scene from Mozarts opera Don Giovanni. Donna Anna tries to unmask her would-be seducer Don Giovanni, whilst his servant Leporello looks

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni
A performance of Mozarts opera Don Giovanni at Her Majestys Theatre, 1846. Accompanied by his servant Leporello, Don Giovanni attempts to woo the chaste Donna Anna

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Winter Garden

Winter Garden
The Winter Garden in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, circa 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Broad Street

Broad Street
Numbers 27 and 28, Broad Street, Golden Square, London, circa 1910. English poet and painter William Blake was born at number 28, and later opened a print shop at number 27

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Qutub Minar

Qutub Minar
The Qutub Minar in Delhi, circa 1865. It is a 237.8 foot-high brick minaret dating back to the 12th century. (Photo by Samuel Bourne/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Calcutta Street

Calcutta Street
A pavement under construction in Calcutta, circa 1880. At the far end is St Andrews Church, on the corner of Dalhousie Square. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Indian Valet

Indian Valet
A valet in India, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHeritage Images Collection: Diljan

Diljan, a bazaar woman in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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