Images Dated 27th January 2010

Plate 41

Watercolour on paper of Tulipa Duck, Tulipa Lack, Tulipa cultivar and Tulipa sylvestris from Verzameling van Bloemen naar de Natuur geteekend door (Collection of flowers drawn from nature) by Pieter van Kouwenhoorn. Dating from c.1630s this leather-bound album contains 46 paintings probably prepared for publication as many plant names are given in Latin, French and German. Kouwenhoorn was a glass painter working in Haarlem and Leiden in the Netherlands and was one of the masters of the painter Gerard Dou (1613-1675)

Small Gauge Steam Locomotive - riding through snow covered winter landscape

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Small Gauge Steam Locomotive - riding through snow covered winter landscape
Brocken - National Park arz Mountains - Sachsen-Anhalt - Germany
Duncan Usher
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Countries, Country, Earth And Environment, Europe, European, Geography, Germany, Ice, Landscape, Landscapes, Mountain, Mountains, National Parks, Snow, Train, Trains, Transport, Travel

Fleeing Yellow Fever

Illustration by Sol Eytinge, with the caption En Route For Kansas - Fleeing From The Yellow Fever, taken from Harper's Weekly, depicting black people fleeing to escape the Yellow Fever. At the time of the Exodus to Kansas, yellow fever ravaged many river towns in Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Because many of the black migrants who stopped over in these towns - coming by steamboat, train, or horseback - were sick, unwashed, and poverty-stricken, it was assumed by city officials that they must be potential disease carriers. USA, circa 1879. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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