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Flourished for the penman's art journal by D.T. Ames 205 Broadway, New York

Landschap met hengelaar - Engraving, Public domain image

21 la citadelle de Sedan Davanne-Chappier

清 石濤(朱若極) 遊張公洞圖 卷|Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto

Spezialkarte der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie - Bischoflack und Idria 1920, Slovenia

Francesco Piranesi - Plan Willi Hadriana

Кильдин на карте 1682 года - Public domain old map

map from "[La Terre: description des phénomènes de la vie du globe. I. Les Continents. II. L'Ocean, l'Atmosphere, la Vie.]"

Josephinische Landaufnahme pg158

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Bound for the ferry after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire disaster of April 18, 1906

The burning of San Francisco. Reproduced from the only photograph that shows the entire scope and extent of this awful conflagration the worst in the history of the world. Fire line over three miles long, property loss three hundred million dollars. On April 18, 1906 at 5:15 AM a quake of 8.25 on the Richter scale hit San Francisco. Greater destruction came from the fires afterwards. The city burned for three days. The combination destroyed 490 city blocks and 25,000 buildings, leaving 250,000 homeless and killing between 450 and 700. Estimated damages, over $350 million

Bound for the ferry after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire disaster of April 18, 1906

The war in Georgia -- Reconnoissance of a detachment of national troops and sailors from the gunboat Western World, beyond Fort Jackson, Savannah River -- Expedition fired on by the Rebels / from a sketch by our special artist. The war in Virginia ; The U.S. steamer Wyandank, dismounting and removing guns from the Rebel batteries at Cockpit Point, on the Potomac River, March 11 / from a sketch by Mr. V.O. Traynor, quartermaster of the Wyandank.

Cincinnati Whig --- Extra. Wednesday night, 8 o'clock. April 25th, 1838. Most awful steam boat accident lost of 125 lives.

Panoramic View of San Francisco on April 1909 three years after the massive 8.25 earthquake of 1906. The view from 1000 feet above Jones and Washington Street, looking eastward. Goat Island (now Yerba Buena Island) in the San Francisco Bay, is in the upper far left. Mason Street cuts across right corner. On April 18, 1906 at 5:15 AM a quake of 8.25 on the Richter scale hit San Francisco. Greater destruction came from the fires afterwards. The city burned for three days. The combination destroyed 490 city blocks and 25,000 buildings, leaving 250,000 homeless and killing between 450 and 700. Estimated damages, over $350 million

Flooding ^ Hurricane/Tropical Storm - St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, August 31, 2010 -- St. Thomas resident Andy Evans (R) speaking with her father Gary Evans (L) on the Charlotte Amalie waterfront surrounded by debris thrown ashore by the winds of Hurricane Earl; a fishing boat, still tied to its mooring, is seen capsized (center) as another mariner scouts the damages from a dingy (L). Andrea Booher/FEMA

Terible katastrofeh en el Atlantik (La America, April 19, 1912)

Pearl Harbor bombing. After the fire. Battered by aerial torpedoes and bomb hits, the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia (nearest ship) rests on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Fire following the explosions as well as oil flames from the nearby sunken USS Arizona added extensively to the damage. Noted the wrecked scout plane topside of gun turret at right and the overturned plane in the right hand corner. The battleship USS Tennessee is in the background

Disasters of 60 days : Wreck of Steamship Tennessee, Indian Cove, March 6th, 1853 ; Wreck & burning of the steamer Independence on the island of Margarita, Feby. 16th, 1853. 150 lives lost ; Collapse of flue on board Jenny Lind off San Francisquito, April 11th, 1853, 50 lives lost ; Wreck of propellor steamship S.S. Lewis, Duxburg Reef, April 9th, 1853 / / Lith. & pubh. by Britton & Rey, cr. California & Montgomery St., San Francisco.

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Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of shipwrecks on one page plus two vignettes of (top) a shepherdess and a bear and (center) Explosion R.K. Page Nicolaus, Feather River, March 21th, 1853; with attached blank leaf.

Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 53.

Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.20

Just an assorted steamships collection for research.

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Steamships

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A large group of fish swimming in the ocean. Barrier reef ocean

Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (PH2) Leroy Cameron films Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class (BM2) Harold Beaver and Hull Maintenance Technician 1ST Class (HT1) Donald Thrush as they survey a historic shipwreck which dates back to about 1870. Members of the Naval Reserve Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Detachment 506 (MDSU-2, DET-506), from Norfolk, Virginia (VA), are assisting the National Park Service with archeological mapping of the wreck near Loggerhead Key

<em>HMS Fowey</em> Anchor - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Capital Reef National Park Roads & Bridges, Along State Route 24 between Torrey & Cainesville, Torrey, Wayne County, UT

De profundis - Engraving, Public domain image

Coast Guard crewmembers work alongside New York State

Henry Clay Davis House, Britton Avenue, Rio Grande City, Starr County, TX

[Letter from J. Hartwell Keyes to Diantha from Halls Hill, Virginia, on pictorial lettersheet]

North Bridge from "Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views; or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century; exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, & picturesque scenery of the Scottish metropolis & its environs, from original drawings by Mr. T. H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical & critical illustrations [by John Britton]"

Hertfordshire from "[The Beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each country. Embellished with engravings. (vol. 1-6 by E. W. Brayley and J. Britton; vol. 7 by E. W. Brayley; vol. 8 by E. W. Brayley; vol. 9 by J. Britton; vol. 10, pt. 1, 2, by E. W. Brayley; vol. 10, pt. 3 by the Rev. Joseph Nightingale; vol. 10, pt. 4 by J. Norris Brewer; vol. 11 by the Rev. J. Evans and J. Britton; vol. 12, pt. 1 by the Rev. J. Hodgson and Mr. F. C. Laird; vol. 12, pt. 2 by J. N. Brewer; vol. 13 by the Rev. J. Nightingale; vol. 14 by Frederic Shoberl; vol. 15 by J. Britton, J. Norris Brewer, J. Hodgson, F. C. Laird; vol. 16 by John Bigland; vol. 17 by the Rev. J. Evans; vol. 18 by Thomas Rees.) L.P.]"

Capture of Roanoke Island, Feby. 8th 1862: By the federal forces, under Command of Genl. Ambrose E. Burnside, and gunboats under Commodore L.M. Goldsborough

[Letter from J. Hartwell Keyes to Diantha from Halls Hill, Virginia, on pictorial lettersheet]

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