Trading Gallery

Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016/4499

Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony. This lantern slide, by US explorer and survey photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), was obtained for the World's Transportation Commission, a worldwide survey carried out for the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, USA. The lantern slides in this collection were hand-coloured with dyes and paints. Here, the areas at far right and left have not been coloured

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The Fair of Beaucaire and a view of Tarascon (coloured engraving)

695017 The Fair of Beaucaire and a view of Tarascon (coloured engraving) by Basset, Paul AndrA© (fl. 1750-85); 31.7 x 47.1 cm; Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; (add.info.: Vue de la Foire de Beaucaire avec une part de Tarascon; located on the RhA´ne river, the Beaucaire Fair was the largest commercial fair in the South of France from the 16th century until the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century; it attracted traders and merchants from all over the Mediterranean;); French, out of copyright

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The commerce of King Solomon - Bible

The commerce of King Solomon. I Kings 10: 22 - 23. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. Illustration by William Hole 1846 - 1917

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