Design Pics/Historical RM Images

Postcard circa 1900, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. South Shields pier, black and white postcard; South Shields,Tyne and Wear, England

Magic Lantern slide, circa 1880, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. The steam paddle tug 'VIctoria' on the River Wear; Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, En...

Magic Lantern slide, circa 1880, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. The steam paddle tug 'VIctoria' on the River Wear; Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, En...

Magic Lantern slide, circa 1880, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. The steam paddle tugs on the River Wear with clipper ships in the background, h...

Magic Lantern slide, circa 1880, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. The steam paddle tugs on the River Wear with clipper ships in the background, b...

Magic Lantern slide circa 1880, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. The title of this image is 'Working like leather', a Zulu industry. The workers...

Postcard circa 1900, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. Cullercoats harbour with coble fishing boats and people, hand coloured; Cullercoats, Tyne an...

Postcard circa 1900, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. Construction of Tyne Bridge; Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

Magic Lantern slide circa 1880, VIctorian/Edwardian, social history. A man punting a rowing boat on Lake Windermere; Cumbria, England

Henry Smith Williams, 1863 - 1943. American medical doctor, lawyer, and author. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

VIctor Marie Hugo, 1802 ??" 1885. French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. From International Library of Famous Literature, pu...

Honor?? de Balzac, 1799 ??" 1850. French novelist and playwright. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

Robert Browning's place of death, the Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice, Italy where he lived with his son briefly from 1888??"89. Robert Browning, 1812 ??"...

Hercules and the Golden Apples. The Eleventh Labour of Hercules or Heracles was to steal the apples from the garden of Hesperides. From Internation...

Charles Robert Darwin, 1809 ??" 1882. English naturalist. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

Thomas Hughes , 1822 ??" 1896. English lawyer, judge, politician and author. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

Brimstone Morning at Dotheboys Hall. Mrs Squeers administering a compulsory dose of brimstone and treacle to the starVIng pupils of Dotheboys Hall. Il...

Samuel Lover, 1797 ??" 1868. Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits. From International Library of Famous Literature, publ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 ??" 1882. American poet and educator. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

"We cast off and moved away from the wreck". Illustration from the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann DaVId Wyss. From International Library...

The home of Oliver Goldsmith, Brecknock Stair, Green Arbour Court, Strand, London, England. Oliver Goldsmith, 1728 ??" 1774. Irish novelist, playwrig...

Fran??ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, 1787 ??" 1874. French historian, orator, and statesman. From International Library of Famous Literature, publishe...

The Pines, 11 Putney Hill, Putney, London, England. The residence of Theodore Watts-Dunton and his friend Algernon Charles Swinburne. Theodore Watts...

"All the town turned out to see the Alderney" Illustration from the novel Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. From International Library of Famous Litera...

Charlotte Bront??, 1816 ??" 1855. English novelist and poet. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

Robert Browning, 1812 ??" 1889. English poet and playwright. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900.

John Ruskin, 1819 ??" 1900. English art critic of the VIctorian era, art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, prominent social thinker, author, po...

Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 1802 ??" 1870, aka Alexandre Dumas, p??re. French writer. From International Library of Famous L...

Andrew Lang, 1844 ??" 1912. Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector...

The home of Tennyson, Farringford House, Isle of White, England. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, 1809 ??"1892. Poet Laureate of Great Britain a...

Nab Cottage, Rydal, Cumbria, England, the home of DaVId Hartley Coleridge, 1796 ??" 1849. English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. From Inte...

Dover Beach, after the painting by Turner. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Markos Botsaris, c. 1788 ??" 1823. Greek general and hero of the Greek War of Independence and captain of the Souliotes. From International Library o...

The death of Dora, illustration from the Charles Dicken's novel DaVId Copperfield. Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812 ??" 1870. English writer and soc...

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, aka Anthony Hope, 1863 ??" 1933. English novelist and playwright. From International Library of Famous Literature, publish...

Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England. Home of Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812 ??" 1870. English writer and social critic. From International L...

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, 1853 ??" 1931, aka Hall Caine. British author. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, 1853 ??" 1931, aka Hall Caine. British author. Seen here in his study. From International Library of Famous Literatur...

William Cullen Bryant, 1794 ??" 1878. American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. From International Lib...

The Avenue des Champs-??lys??es, 8th arrondissement, Paris, France in the early 19th century. From International Library of Famous Literature, publis...

Alphonse Daudet, 1840 ??" 1897. French novelist. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Alphonse Daudet, 1840 ??" 1897. French novelist. Seen here in his study. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Edward VIII, 1894 ??" 1972. King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his...

Paul Charles Joseph Bourget, 1852 ??" 1935. French novelist and critic. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

The Old South Church, aka New Old South Church or Third Church, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. From The International Library of F...

George Bancroft, 1800 ??" 1891. American historian and statesman. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

James Madison, Jr., 1751 ??" 1836. American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. F...

An Indian VIllage in the 19th century. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

John Fiske, 1842 ??" 1901. American philosopher and historian. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

John Quincy Adams, 1767 ??" 1848. American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States. From The International Library of Famou...