The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West or simply "the West," traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because the U.S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning of the West has evolved over time. Prior to about 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier. Since then, the frontier moved further west and the Mississippi River was referenced as the easternmost possible boundary of The West. {Via Wikipedia}
The built environment. Everything from famous bridges to the tallest of buildings. Great architecture can be seen in the concrete columns of a Frank Lloyd Wright building to the details in a brass doorknob. You will find that and more here.
Aviation imagery around the turn of the 19th Century and up through NASA images of the Moon landings will always be a source of inspiration for young and old.
A wonderful survey of plants including may flowering plants. These images often come from books from the mid 1800's by Charles Lemaire and published by Ambroise Verschaffelt. Much of this work comes from Ghent (Gand) “The City of Flowers” and back in the 1800's was the center of Horticulture in the world. Ghent is the historic capital of Flanders and one of Belgium’s oldest cities.
Our Classic Posters widely vary and include Circus, Military, Magic, and Travel themes among many others. May date from around 1900 and were originally printed as chromatographs, one of the finest printing methods then and now.
These wonderful designs are representative of many foreign countries. Many are produced using spot color or process color printing with some using 5-7 colors. These have been collected edited scanned and cleaned for wonderful quality at large or small size reproductions.
One of the greatest cities in the United States. There is a wonderful visual history depicted of New York. We share both photographic and graphic arts prints and posters reveling vintage views of the Brooklyn Bridge to Bird's Eye views of the whole island of Manhattan.
Notgeld (German for "emergency money" or "necessity money") was special money issued primarily in Germany and Austria to deal with economic crisis situations such as a shortage of small change or hyperinflation. It was not issued by the central bank (Reichsbank) but by various other institutions, e.g. town savings banks, municipalities, private and state-owned firms. It was therefore not legal tender, but rather a mutually-accepted means of payment in a particular locale or site. {Via Wikipedia}
A patent application or patent may contain drawings, also called patent drawings, illustrating the invention, some of its embodiments (which are particular implementations or methods of carrying out the invention), or the prior art. We have collected some beautiful and amusing examples here.
Our photographic images cover many styles and time periods and photographic technologies including giclée print reproductions of degaurreotypes, colodion wet plate process, gelatin silver and others. Many images are sourced from the US Library of Congress or other archives of American history.
