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One hundred old Black & White Stock Photos
RMDKBN84–Home of Alfred Bledsoe on Clear Creek Road near Loyston, Tennessee. This cabin is about one hundred years old. 532691
RM2AJJ0EA–Plants: The Hundred-Horse Chestnut located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna in Sicily, just 8 km (5.0 mi) from the volcano's crater is the largest and oldest known chestnut tree in the world. Above-ground the Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa), the tree has since split into multiple large trunks and is believed to be 2,000 to 4,000 years old. The tree's name originated from a legend in which a queen of Aragon and her company of one hundred knights, during a trip to Mount Etna, were caught in a severe thunderstorm. The entire company is said to have taken shelter under the tree.
RM2H756JT–A late 19th Century illustration of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), aka 'The Maid of Orléans', heroine of France for her role during the Hundred Years' War, for which she was later canonized as a saint. Joan said she saw visions of saints instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination. Would be French King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army following which the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory at Castillon in 1453.
RFP10GPF–One hundred anniversary, minimalistic logo. One hundredth years, 100th jubilee, greeting card. Birthday invitation. 100 year sign. Black negative space vector illustration on white background.
RFFFT52A–The Hundred spired Prague - The City of a Hundred Spires, if we look around from one of the look-out spots we can literally see
![[ 1920s Japan - Kobe Oriental Hotel ] — The Oriental Hotel Kobe on Kaigandori in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The building behind the Oriental Hotel is the Osaka Shosen Building. The Oriental Hotel was Kobe’s face for more than a hundred years. At the time that this photo was taken, it was known as one of the best places in Japan to stay, and even more, one of the best places to eat. It was founded by Frenchman Louis Begeux in 1887 (Meiji 20) on number 81 (Kyomachi). In 1907 (Meiji 40), the building moved to the location on this card. 20th century vintage postcard. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/WP5PGH/1920s-japan-kobe-oriental-hotel-the-oriental-hotel-kobe-on-kaigandori-in-kobe-hyogo-prefecture-the-building-behind-the-oriental-hotel-is-the-osaka-shosen-building-the-oriental-hotel-was-kobes-face-for-more-than-a-hundred-years-at-the-time-that-this-photo-was-taken-it-was-known-as-one-of-the-best-places-in-japan-to-stay-and-even-more-one-of-the-best-places-to-eat-it-was-founded-by-frenchman-louis-begeux-in-1887-meiji-20-on-number-81-kyomachi-in-1907-meiji-40-the-building-moved-to-the-location-on-this-card-20th-century-vintage-postcard-WP5PGH.jpg "[ 1920s Japan - Kobe Oriental Hotel ] — The Oriental Hotel Kobe on Kaigandori in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The building behind the Oriental Hotel is the Osaka Shosen Building. The Oriental Hotel was Kobe’s face for more than a hundred years. At the time that this photo was taken, it was known as one of the best places in Japan to stay, and even more, one of the best places to eat. It was founded by Frenchman Louis Begeux in 1887 (Meiji 20) on number 81 (Kyomachi). In 1907 (Meiji 40), the building moved to the location on this card. 20th century vintage postcard. Stock Photo")
RMWP5PGH–[ 1920s Japan - Kobe Oriental Hotel ] — The Oriental Hotel Kobe on Kaigandori in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The building behind the Oriental Hotel is the Osaka Shosen Building. The Oriental Hotel was Kobe’s face for more than a hundred years. At the time that this photo was taken, it was known as one of the best places in Japan to stay, and even more, one of the best places to eat. It was founded by Frenchman Louis Begeux in 1887 (Meiji 20) on number 81 (Kyomachi). In 1907 (Meiji 40), the building moved to the location on this card. 20th century vintage postcard.
RM2M3PCP4–Impressions in shell-shattered France by Helen McKie. McKie, a staff artist for The Bystander (and sister paper, The Graphic), travelled extensively around Europe, before, during and after the First World War. This series, published in The Bystander in 1919, conveyed scenes of the ruined post-war landscapes of France, and of the women coping in such conditions. 1. A small estaminet on the outskirts of Rheims a few hundred yards from the old French trenches - only the ground floor remains. 2. A woman returning with her small effects from her partially destroyed house. 3. One of two wate
RMP0AJ56–. English: Fleuron from book: An Act for charging and continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and twelve; and for applying part of the coinage-duties to pay the deficiency of the value of the plate coined; and to pay for the recoining the old money in Scotland. 294 An Act for charging and continuing the duties upon malt Fleuron N052359-2
![[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."]. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2J89DPX/untitled-possibly-related-to-washington-yakima-valley-near-wapato-one-tenant-purchase-program-farm-security-administration-client-jacob-n-schrock-this-family-with-eight-children-had-lived-for-twenty-five-years-on-a-rocky-rented-farm-in-this-valley-they-now-own-forty-eight-acres-of-good-land-this-good-house-price-six-thousand-seventy-hundred-and-seventy-dollars-they-raise-hay-grain-dairy-and-hogs-mrs-schrock-says-quotquite-a-lot-of-difference-between-that-old-rock-pile-and-around-herequot-2J89DPX.jpg "[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."]. Stock Photo")
RM2J89DPX–[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."].
RMMYX7J7–Home of Alfred Bledsoe on Clear Creek Road near Loyston, Tennessee. This cabin is about one hundred years old. -
RMB559M2–Shepherdess: How's this for Woman's lib. with only the mountains and the mist around her, 29 year old Agnes Wilson from Bodesbeck, near Selkirk, goes about her daily job. For Agnes is one of the few shepherdesses in the country. She is pictured here with one of her four dogs Maree, and 300 hundred of the sheep that she looks after. December 1971 P012556
RMW6HH9F–Home of Alfred Bledsoe on Clear Creek Road near Loyston, Tennessee. This cabin is about one hundred years old.
RM2HWAG3E–Troops of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, in the old German second line during Attack on Moyenneville. There are German prisoners and wounded coming in. Note tanks in distance. 21 August 1918. (Note Lewis gun mounted for use against aircraft).
RM2M8CXWP–Ebers Papyrus. Sample of the Ebers Papyrus, dating back from about 1500 B.C., and one of the earliest surviving documents from Egypt. The Papyrus contains prescriptions written in hieroglyphics for over seven hundred remedies. Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of Ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor in the winter of 1873–1874 by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers.
![John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Empringham, master of the Brigg Union Workhouse, of a '...remarkable veteran...born...according to his own belief, in the year 1761. If he be right in this date he has attained the age of 103...In his early manhood he was pressed into the Navy...He does not seem to have remained long at sea, for about 1791 he enlisted into the 7th Dragoons. This regiment being sent into Holland, he...[fought in] the campaign of 1793...in a personal conflict with a French cavalry soldier, he lost the mid Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2X21TFA/john-gilliatt-of-brigg-lincolnshire-above-one-hundred-years-old-1864-engraving-from-a-photograph-by-mr-empringham-master-of-the-brigg-union-workhouse-of-a-remarkable-veteranbornaccording-to-his-own-belief-in-the-year-1761-if-he-be-right-in-this-date-he-has-attained-the-age-of-103in-his-early-manhood-he-was-pressed-into-the-navyhe-does-not-seem-to-have-remained-long-at-sea-for-about-1791-he-enlisted-into-the-7th-dragoons-this-regiment-being-sent-into-holland-he-fought-in-the-campaign-of-1793in-a-personal-conflict-with-a-french-cavalry-soldier-he-lost-the-mid-2X21TFA.jpg "John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Empringham, master of the Brigg Union Workhouse, of a '...remarkable veteran...born...according to his own belief, in the year 1761. If he be right in this date he has attained the age of 103...In his early manhood he was pressed into the Navy...He does not seem to have remained long at sea, for about 1791 he enlisted into the 7th Dragoons. This regiment being sent into Holland, he...[fought in] the campaign of 1793...in a personal conflict with a French cavalry soldier, he lost the mid Stock Photo")
RM2X21TFA–John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Empringham, master of the Brigg Union Workhouse, of a '...remarkable veteran...born...according to his own belief, in the year 1761. If he be right in this date he has attained the age of 103...In his early manhood he was pressed into the Navy...He does not seem to have remained long at sea, for about 1791 he enlisted into the 7th Dragoons. This regiment being sent into Holland, he...[fought in] the campaign of 1793...in a personal conflict with a French cavalry soldier, he lost the mid
RMF6DXKX–RELEASE DATE: December 22, 1948. MOVIE TITLE: Joan of Arc. STUDIO: Sierra Pictures (II). PLOT: In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested
RMWH8HRH–Pony Race for One Hundred Guineas. Mr J. W. Wise's DANDY beat at Epsom by Mr W. Theobold's MAT.O. the MINT. November 3rd 1849. Dandy, 6 years old, 12 hands 3 inches high, was bred by Mr. T. Falkner & Got by Doubtful. He has run ten times this Season out of which he has won eight vis Hartley-Row, Marlow, Edgware, Eton, Thames-Ditton, Croydon & Barnet at which place he won the same day the Ponys Cup and the Galloways Cup Running for both five Two Mile heats. Mat.O. the Mint has won three 50 Gs at barnet: one 50 Gs at Egham & 50 Gs at Ascot. two 50 Gs at Epsom. also 100 Gs at Epsom beating
RMDHJCT6–A Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation taking the one hundred millionth fingerprint, represented by. 518186
RM2BW34H0–Court meets on river barge . One of the most picturesque courts in the country , the Medway Court of Admiralty , which is more than two hundred years old , met , according to custom , on a barge on the river Medway at Rochester . The Mayor , Councillor George Jenner , for the occasion became Admiral of the Medway . The Mayor addressing the Court . 9 July 1932
RM2H985RY–A late 19th Century illustration of the Battle of Sluys aka the Battle of l'Écluse, a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between England and France. It took place in the roadstead of the port of Sluys between Zeeland and West Flanders. The English fleet of 120–150 ships was led by Edward III of England defeated the 230-strong French fleet by the Breton knight Hugues Quiéret, Admiral of France, and Nicolas Béhuchet, Constable of France. The battle was one of the opening engagements of the Hundred Years' War.
RF2T3RH0A–The Man at the Age of One Hundred, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1574 - 1637 Departure with an old man on his deathbed and three men and a woman at a cof
RFFFT522–The Hundred spired Prague - The City of a Hundred Spires, if we look around from one of the look-out spots we can literally see
RM2J9W8M1–A modified illustration by Eugène Grasset (1841-1917) from a poster showing Joan of Arc in armour on horseback with a group of soldiers
RMP0AJ51–. English: Fleuron from book: An Act for charging and continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and twelve; and for applying part of the coinage-duties to pay the deficiency of the value of the plate coined; and to pay for the recoining the old money in Scotland. 294 An Act for charging and continuing the duties upon malt Fleuron N052359-1
![[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."]. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2J89DKF/untitled-possibly-related-to-washington-yakima-valley-near-wapato-one-tenant-purchase-program-farm-security-administration-client-jacob-n-schrock-this-family-with-eight-children-had-lived-for-twenty-five-years-on-a-rocky-rented-farm-in-this-valley-they-now-own-forty-eight-acres-of-good-land-this-good-house-price-six-thousand-seventy-hundred-and-seventy-dollars-they-raise-hay-grain-dairy-and-hogs-mrs-schrock-says-quotquite-a-lot-of-difference-between-that-old-rock-pile-and-around-herequot-2J89DKF.jpg "[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."]. Stock Photo")
RM2J89DKF–[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."].
RMMG6K14–An old monument to Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431), nicknamed 'The Maid of Orléans', a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint in Rouen, a city on the River Seine in the north of France. It is the capital of the region of Normandy. Formerly the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
RMB559M0–Shepherdess: How's this for Woman's lib.with only the mountains and the mist around her, 29 year old Agnes Wilson from Bodesbeck, near Selkirk, goes about her daily job. For Agnes is one of the few shepherdesses in the country. She is pictured here with one of her four dogs Maree, and 300 hundred of the sheep that she looks after. December 1971 P012555
RMW66YRB–Landaff, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Though Landaff was settled in the 1770s few people were bur . . .; Scope and content: Full caption reads as follows: Landaff, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Though Landaff was settled in the 1770s few people were buried in its graveyard before the end of the century. This group of head stones is about one hundred years old. The newer part of the cemetery is set off by itself on the other side of the road to the left.
RM2H0KTBG–A late 19th Century illustration from the Books of Kings and Chronicles, in the old Testament, of Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah laying Sennacherib's letters before the Lord. He was king of Judah during the siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE by Sennacherib who sent threatening letters warning Hezekiah of his determination to take the Judean capital. Although they besieged Jerusalem, the biblical accounts state that God sent out an angel who, in one night, struck down 'a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians.'
RMHYKW2G–BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, USA: One of many rotting rooms in the hotel that have fallen into disrepair. HAUNTING images showing the decrepit remains of a once luxury three-hundred-and-fifty room hotel that hosted celebrity icons including legendary singer Ray Charles and President Herbert Hoover have been captured. The series of shots show long decaying corridors that show how both the wallpaper and ceilings have started to peel. Other images show an old sunken bed lying below a collapsed roof and a sideboard populated with empty brandy and whisky bottles that have seen happier days. Also in the co
![The Prince at the Temple of Srivangam [sic], Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII in India. Temple at '...Srirungum...is about five hundred years old. At the entrance to the inner courts the Prince was received by the priests, whom he followed down an arcade formed entirely of strings of oleander flowers of different colours to a pavilion similarly formed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2RRJCNK/the-prince-at-the-temple-of-srivangam-sic-trichinopoly-madras-presidency-from-a-sketch-by-one-of-our-special-artists-1876-the-future-king-edward-vii-in-india-temple-at-srirungumis-about-five-hundred-years-old-at-the-entrance-to-the-inner-courts-the-prince-was-received-by-the-priests-whom-he-followed-down-an-arcade-formed-entirely-of-strings-of-oleander-flowers-of-different-colours-to-a-pavilion-similarly-formed-from-quotillustrated-london-newsquot-1876-2RRJCNK.jpg "The Prince at the Temple of Srivangam [sic], Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII in India. Temple at '...Srirungum...is about five hundred years old. At the entrance to the inner courts the Prince was received by the priests, whom he followed down an arcade formed entirely of strings of oleander flowers of different colours to a pavilion similarly formed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876. Stock Photo")
RM2RRJCNK–The Prince at the Temple of Srivangam [sic], Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII in India. Temple at '...Srirungum...is about five hundred years old. At the entrance to the inner courts the Prince was received by the priests, whom he followed down an arcade formed entirely of strings of oleander flowers of different colours to a pavilion similarly formed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
RMF6DXKT–RELEASE DATE: December 22, 1948. MOVIE TITLE: Joan of Arc. STUDIO: Sierra Pictures (II). PLOT: In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested
RM2B02F3Y–Foot binding, although notionally banned after the fall of the Qing Empiore in in 1911, continued in some remote areas for quite a few years under the Chinese Republic (1911-1949). Not so in Shanghai, always the arbitor of modern tastes and fashion. As a consequqnce, by the mid-1930s, Shanghai’s Zhejiang Road, Fujian Road and Nanjing Road had over one hundred shoe stores between them, with highly skilled shoemakers copying western styles, the most popular among these being high heels and open toe leather shoes. A Shanghainese woman, dressed in qipao and walking in high heels, became the ico
RMDD9RB4–Mrs. William Wood manages a one hundred and twenty acre farm in Coloma, Michigan, with little male assitance. - - 196428
RM2BW32J2–Court meets on river barge . One of the most picturesque courts in the country , the Medway Court of Admiralty , which is more than two hundred years old , met , according to custom , on a barge on the river Medway at Rochester . The Mayor , Councillor George Jenner , for the occasion became Admiral of the Medway . The Mayor addressing the Court . 9 July 1932
RM2BTPJTM–Breakdown on Westminster Bridge . Old crocks race to Brighton in Emnacipation day run . The annual Old Crocks motor trial from London to Brighton , commeratig Emancipatio Day , when motorists were allowed to dispense with the services of a man with a red flag , commenced from Wilson Street City . Nearly a hundred cars , led by a veteran German , 41 years old , are taking part in the trials . Photo shows , an Oldsmobile built in 1902 and retrieved from duty as a hen roast , driven by E S Pitchford , overtakes a 1902 Daimler driven by H O Butterfield and E E Brown , which was one of the first to
RMENW052–Eustace Rogers builds coracles but the demand for this ancient form of transport has fallen in the past few hundred years. So 52 year old Eustace - the last of his kind in England - has switched from the very old to the very new and taken a job at the huge power station at Ironbridge in Shropshire. He commutes, of course, by coracle - three miles on the River Seven. It’s ideal for reflective lunch breaks and there are no no parking problems either. March 1967
RFP10GJD–One hundred fifty anniversary, minimalistic logo. One hundred fiftieth years, 150th jubilee, greeting card. Birthday invitation. 150 year sign. Black negative space vector illustration on white background.
RMMYRBBJ–. English: Fleuron from book: An exposition on the Old and New Testament, wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents; The Sacred Text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs; Each Paragraph reduced to its proper Heads; the sense given; and largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations. Forming the most complete family bible ever published. Illustrated with upwards of one hundred elegant engravings, descriptive of the most material Transactions recorded in the Sacred Writings. Vol. I. By Matthew Henry, Late Minister of the Gospel. 334 An exposition on the Old and New Testa
RM2MBGK1P–John Smith, father of Mrs. Ray, at the age of ninety-seven. He lived to be nearly one hundred years old, 1926.
RM2APRKNH–Israel 1964-1965: Jerusalem (Jerusalem), Mea Shearim Gateway through the gate with daily activity Annotation: Mea Shearim, also called Meah Shearim or a hundred gates, is one of the oldest districts of Jerusalem. It was built from about 1870 by Hasidic Jews who lived in the Old Town until then. However, there was too little space and so they bought a piece of land northwest of the city. This land, a swamp area, was cultivated into land to build a new neighborhood: Meah Shearim. The district is known anno 2012 as the most extreme orthodox Jewish quarter in the world and is home to several Hasi
RMMG6JWT–John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, (1389 – 1435), was a 15th century English nobleman, magnate, soldier, and statesman, the third surviving son of King Henry IV of England, and brother to King Henry V. He was one of the leading English commanders during the Hundred Years' War, and acted as regent of France for his nephew, King Henry VI of England, who by the Treaty of Troyes (1420) also reigned as disputed King Henry II of France.
RM2C73NH6–Hand-painted slogans on corrugated iron fencing at Tolmers Square, Somers Town, London, England, UK, during the protests there in the late 1970s. Located in Somers Town, near Euston station in central London, Tolmers Square was occupied by more than one hundred squatters in the 1970s, who, along with local groups, fought for a redevelopment plan which fitted the local community. By 1975, 'Tolmers Village' had 49 squats housing over 180 people. The squatters lived there for six years. Many of the proposals by the protesters resulted in building housing instead of offices at Tolmers Square.
![American Aloe in Bloom in the Gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park, [London], 1858. '...a rare spectacle in our clime...[the plant] is supposed to be now about one hundred and twenty years old. Its height may be about ten or twelve feet, with a foliage by no means luxuriant...On the 12tn of June the flower-spike made its first appearance, and then grew very rapidly, and the whole now presents much of the form of a candelabrum, bearing flowers to the extent of about 3500. The first portion expanded about the 8th of September...Agave Americana, or the American aloe, is a plant whi Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2RRJ8GA/american-aloe-in-bloom-in-the-gardens-of-the-royal-botanic-society-regents-park-london-1858-a-rare-spectacle-in-our-clime-the-plant-is-supposed-to-be-now-about-one-hundred-and-twenty-years-old-its-height-may-be-about-ten-or-twelve-feet-with-a-foliage-by-no-means-luxurianton-the-12tn-of-june-the-flower-spike-made-its-first-appearance-and-then-grew-very-rapidly-and-the-whole-now-presents-much-of-the-form-of-a-candelabrum-bearing-flowers-to-the-extent-of-about-3500-the-first-portion-expanded-about-the-8th-of-septemberagave-americana-or-the-american-aloe-is-a-plant-whi-2RRJ8GA.jpg "American Aloe in Bloom in the Gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park, [London], 1858. '...a rare spectacle in our clime...[the plant] is supposed to be now about one hundred and twenty years old. Its height may be about ten or twelve feet, with a foliage by no means luxuriant...On the 12tn of June the flower-spike made its first appearance, and then grew very rapidly, and the whole now presents much of the form of a candelabrum, bearing flowers to the extent of about 3500. The first portion expanded about the 8th of September...Agave Americana, or the American aloe, is a plant whi Stock Photo")
RM2RRJ8GA–American Aloe in Bloom in the Gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park, [London], 1858. '...a rare spectacle in our clime...[the plant] is supposed to be now about one hundred and twenty years old. Its height may be about ten or twelve feet, with a foliage by no means luxuriant...On the 12tn of June the flower-spike made its first appearance, and then grew very rapidly, and the whole now presents much of the form of a candelabrum, bearing flowers to the extent of about 3500. The first portion expanded about the 8th of September...Agave Americana, or the American aloe, is a plant whi
RMJPMJHH–1870: The Rock of Cashel, also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock. It was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The complex is one of the most remarkable collections of medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe. The majority of buildings date from the 12th and 13th centuries. Located at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
![Alois Hitler in the uniform of an Austrian customs officer. The original of this picture was therefore taken in the period of the 1850s. On 05.06.1937 Adolf Hitler's father would have been one hundred years old. [automated translation] Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GY4PEG/alois-hitler-in-the-uniform-of-an-austrian-customs-officer-the-original-of-this-picture-was-therefore-taken-in-the-period-of-the-1850s-on-05061937-adolf-hitlers-father-would-have-been-one-hundred-years-old-automated-translation-2GY4PEG.jpg "Alois Hitler in the uniform of an Austrian customs officer. The original of this picture was therefore taken in the period of the 1850s. On 05.06.1937 Adolf Hitler's father would have been one hundred years old. [automated translation] Stock Photo")
RM2GY4PEG–Alois Hitler in the uniform of an Austrian customs officer. The original of this picture was therefore taken in the period of the 1850s. On 05.06.1937 Adolf Hitler's father would have been one hundred years old. [automated translation]
RM2HA7867–A late 19th Century illustration of a military parade in St Isaac's Place, in St Petersburgh, Russia. St. Isaac's Cathedral, built at the side of the Neva River between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. One hundred and eighty years later the gilded dome of St. Isaac's still dominates the skyline of St. Petersburg.
RMPCTMX9–Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, England was restored by Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, who continued his father's modernisation of Kenilworth. He was keen to impress Elizabeth to convince her to marry him, and no expense was spared. Elizabeth brought an entourage of thirty-one barons and four hundred staff for the royal visit that lasted an exceptional nineteen days with pageants, fireworks, bear baiting, mystery plays, hunting and lavish banquets. The event was considered a huge success yet the queen did not decide to marry Leicester.
RMENTYK1–Eustace Rogers builds coracles but the demand for this ancient form of transport has fallen in the past few hundred years. So 52 year old Eustace - the last of his kind in England - has switched from the very old to the very new and taken a job at the huge power station at Ironbridge in Shropshire. He commutes, of course, by coracle - three miles on the River Seven. Its ideal for reflective lunch breaks and there are no no parking problems either. March 1967
RMP03PE7–The Battle of Sluys, aka the Battle of l'Ecluse, was a sea battle fought on 24 June 1340 as one of the opening conflicts of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. The encounter happened during the reigns of Philip VI of France and Edward III of England, in front of the town of Newmarket or Sluis, on the inlet between West Flanders and Zeeland. During the battle Philip's navy was almost completely destroyed, giving the English fleet complete mastery over the channel.
RM2JXN574–DURING: Bombs walking across an airfield is an old pattern but a good one. Three groups totaling 87 Martin B-26s attacked Practica di Mare on 17 Sept., with 13,580 hundred-pound bombs and thirty 500-lb incendiaries from 11,000 ft.
RMF1M0GA–A 19th Century view of Naples threatened by a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, one of several volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc. The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, as well as several other settlements. It has erupted many times since, and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years.
RM2RND3WE–Current 44-4-1973 : Everything must goMARKEN with 700 residents and over a hundred businesses are going away. One traditional and pleasant urban environment is completely rehabilitated. The capital of Bergen requires it. Here the old people's home in Kaigaten where the whole quarter towards Lille Lungegårdsvann is going away. Photo; Svein Kløvig / Aktuell / NTB ***PHOTO NOT IMAGE PROCESSED*** NB; The decision was later overturned, and Marken preserved. This text has been automatically translated!
RMMYRBBY–. English: Fleuron from book: An exposition on the Old and New Testament, wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents; The Sacred Text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs; Each Paragraph reduced to its proper Heads; the sense given; and largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations. Forming the most complete family bible ever published. Illustrated with upwards of one hundred elegant engravings, descriptive of the most material Transactions recorded in the Sacred Writings. Vol. I. By Matthew Henry, Late Minister of the Gospel. 334 An exposition on the Old and New Testa
RMW517WC–Hannibal Barca (247 – between 183 and 181 BCE), general and statesman from Ancient Carthage who is widely considered one of the greatest military commanders in history in the assembly in Carthage. Hannibal was still only 46 at the conclusion of the Second Punic War in 201 BC and showed he could be a statesman as well as a soldier. In order to reduce the power of the oligarchs, Hannibal used citizen support to change the term of office in the Hundred and Four from life to a year, with none permitted to 'hold office for two consecutive years.'
RMM7W9JK–Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. The one hundred ton barge being pulled up to the Usdum pier to be loaded with potash for the North LOC matpc.18293
RM2R8C93M–Actual 44-8-1960 : Last journey. It has one cylinder and 35 horsepower, the world's oldest steam crank. What a modern car gives onesuch a pleasant sound from him? Now it is going to the Technical Museum. A few hundred people said goodbye, a sad farewell a pleasant old acquaintance who was never in too much of a hurry. Photo: Ivar Aaserud / Aktuell / NTB ***Photo not image processed***
RM2APXJ5M–Israel 1964-1965: Jerusalem (Jerusalem), Mea Shearim Street in the district of Mea Shearim with household activity Annotation: Mea Shearim, also called Meah Shearim or a hundred gates, is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Jerusalem. It was built from about 1870 by Hasidic Jews who lived in the Old Town until then. However, there was too little space and so they bought a piece of land northwest of the city. This land, a swamp area, was cultivated into land to build a new neighborhood: Meah Shearim. The district is known anno 2012 as the most extreme orthodox Jewish quarter in the world and is
RM2JYXRD5–Cricket Puts The Clock Back -- The Regency Club's top-hatted and quaintly-attired opening batsmen get a clap from Regency ladies as they go out to bat. Their curved bats are in the style of a century ago. A cricket match in the style of a hundred years ago was played at Brighton to-day (Wednesday). Wickets of two stumps, bats and balls of the period, and top-hatted players were features of a challenge match between the Regency Club and the Hambledon Club, birth-place of cricket. Of the two scorers, one cut notches on a stick in the good, old-fashioned way, the other using modern scoring book i
RM2RAMCD0–Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: October 21, 1926 A Persian woman, member of the Persian Commision, and the first to discard the traditional veil of the country, Zorah Khanoum Herdary is at the Sesquicentennial Exposition exhibiting some of the dolls at the Persian exhibit. Some of them are several hundred years old.
RM2RRJAPJ–Lady Hamilton, by George Romney, in the late exhibition of Old Masters, Burlington House, 1876. 'That too celebrated female beauty, Emma Lyons, a Welsh servant-girl, who became the wife of Sir William Hamilton, British Ambassador at Naples, and whose connection with Lord Nelson unfortunately belongs to our national history, was at one time a paid model for artists in London. When George Romney...set up in London about a hundred years ago, she used to be a favourite subject for his graceful pencil. The famous picture which was so much admired at the last Exhibition of Old Masters in Burlington
RM2J89G4K–Building plank tobacco barn to replace old log one. Building takes approximately one week, this barn can be built for one hundred dollars. The average life of a barn is fifteen to twenty years. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
RF2GYB095–Roll of one hundred American dollars close-up black and white style. A big pile of cash dollars. One hundred dollar bills. Close-up, free space for ca
RMDTJKFY–Over one hundred visitors line up on the roofs of the adobe dwellings of the Hopi Indian village of Mishongnovi awaiting the Snake Dance, ca.1901
RM2T61NP3–Redfern is an inner Sydney suburb. It first started to attract Aboriginal residents soon after the Second World War. The population continued to rise, peaking in the later 1970's, at fifteen hundred. Redfern has become a focal point for Aboriginal people throughout Australia as it was here that several organisations sprung up in the 1970's to serve its people. One of the first of these was the Redfern Aboriginal Medical service and its parallel the Redfern Aboriginal Legal Service. The need for medical and legal services for Aboriginals became apparent in 1967.
RMFWN5W0–One hundred of Robinson's Great Central Railway 2-8-0s were purchased by the Great Western from the ex War Department following
RM2M3PC7M–Ruckwarts (meaning backward-going) - the Long March of Grey Uniforms towards the Rhine. A scene drawn by The Sphere special artist Fortunino Matania, showing German soldiers leaving a French village after four years of occupation, while the French inhabitants watch their departure silently but scornfully. Among them are a gaunt old man, a girl, an old woman making the sign of the Cross in thankfulness for her deliverance from German rule and a small boy with a wooden gun - 'young France in judgment on the ancient foe.' Date: 1918
![Defoe, Daniel, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe .. With one hundred and twenty original illustrations by Walter Paget (1862-1935), (London: Cassell & Co, [1896 [1895, 96]) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2RJNACB/defoe-daniel-the-life-and-strange-surprising-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe-with-one-hundred-and-twenty-original-illustrations-by-walter-paget-1862-1935-london-cassell-co-1896-1895-96-2RJNACB.jpg "Defoe, Daniel, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe .. With one hundred and twenty original illustrations by Walter Paget (1862-1935), (London: Cassell & Co, [1896 [1895, 96]) Stock Photo")
RM2RJNACB–Defoe, Daniel, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe .. With one hundred and twenty original illustrations by Walter Paget (1862-1935), (London: Cassell & Co, [1896 [1895, 96])
RF2K094C6–The Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers, nine hundred and ninety-one strong, passing down Cortlandt Street, on their way to the Philadelphia Railroad, en route for the Capitol, Washington D. C., April 19th, 1861. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
RMMYRBBD–. English: Fleuron from book: An exposition on the Old and New Testament, wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents; The Sacred Text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs; Each Paragraph reduced to its proper Heads; the sense given; and largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations. Forming the most complete family bible ever published. Illustrated with upwards of one hundred elegant engravings, descriptive of the most material Transactions recorded in the Sacred Writings. Vol. I. By Matthew Henry, Late Minister of the Gospel. 334 An exposition on the Old and New Testa
RM2R8A3DE–Actual 44-8-1960 : Last journey. It has one cylinder and 35 horsepower, the world's oldest steam crank. What a modern car gives onesuch a pleasant sound from him? Now it is going to the Technical Museum. A few hundred people said goodbye, a sad farewell a pleasant old acquaintance who was never in too much of a hurry. Photo: Ivar Aaserud / Aktuell / NTB ***Photo not image processed***
RM2APY2RW–Israel 1964-1965: Jerusalem (Jerusalem), Mea Shearim View of a courtyard with houses at a gallery and household activity Annotation: Mea Shearim, also called Meah Shearim or a hundred gates, is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Jerusalem. It was built from about 1870 by Hasidic Jews who lived in the Old Town until then. However, there was too little space and so they bought a piece of land northwest of the city. This land, a swamp area, was cultivated into land to build a new neighborhood: Meah Shearim. The district is known anno 2012 as the most extreme orthodox Jewish quarter in the world
RM2RC82RM–Miami, Florida: 1946. A young girl leans up against nearly five hundred pounds of tortoise in the world's largest tortoise colony at the North Miami Zoo.
RM2R8Y3RE–The War in China - Examination at the Police-Office, Victoria, Hong-Kong, of Esing, the Baker, upon the Charge of Poisoning, 1857. 'The Chinese in profile is Alum; the full-face is his father; and the Chinese woman behind is one of his wives...Esing (properly called Alum)...supplied the bread poisoned with arsenic from which so many people suffered in Hong-Kong, and who, with his father and eight of his workmen, are now on their trial for that crime...Two or three hundred people, altogether, had partaken of the poisoned bread, but no lives had been lost...Private letters from the Chinese Seas,
RM2J3P60P–Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife
RF2GYFJYA–Roll of one hundred American dollars close-up black and white style. A big pile of cash dollars. One hundred dollar bills. Close-up, free space for ca
RMGK42R2–44502 One Hundred Thousand Salmon in the Alsop Trap, Pacific American Fisheries, during the big run of 1909
RM2T61NGN–Redfern is an inner Sydney suburb. It first started to attract Aboriginal residents soon after the Second World War. The population continued to rise, peaking in the later 1970's, at fifteen hundred. Redfern has become a focal point for Aboriginal people throughout Australia as it was here that several organisations sprung up in the 1970's to serve its people. One of the first of these was the Redfern Aboriginal Medical service and its parallel the Redfern Aboriginal Legal Service. The need for medical and legal services for Aboriginals became apparent in 1967.
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