Mitriahchion Bridge over the Grand Canal near Soochow , China, where Colonel 'Chinese' Gordon's officers used to meeting the Europeans serving with...
The Imperial Stockade in front of the Sowuum or East Gate in Soochow , in which the Wangs were beheaded at the end of the Taiping Rebellion, circa...
The entrance to the Chung-Wang's palace in Soochow , China, circa 1863. The Chung-Wang or 'Faithful Prince' was the leader of the Taiping Heavenly...
The stockade in which the Wangs were beheaded at the end of the Taiping Rebellion, on 6th December 1863.
Russian film director Sergei Mikjailovich Eisenstein holding the child of actress Marfa Lapkina , 1929. Lapkina starred in Eisenstein's film 'Staroye...
Ladies and gentlemen take a tour of the Parisian sewers, 1870. On the right, a tunnel leads up to Rue Laffitte in the north of the city. Illustration...
Ladies and gentlemen take a tour of the Parisian sewers, 1870. Illustration by Jules Pelcos. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub....
Model of the Creusot steam hammer at the Paris World's Fair, 1878. It was built by Schneider and Co. In the French town of Le Creusot.
British soldier, adventurer and author T. E. Lawrence in traditional arab dress, 1918. He was also known as T. E. Shaw and Lawrence Of Arabia....
The Paris Opera, also known as the Palais Garnier or Opera de Paris, in the Place de l'Opera, Paris, circa 1910. Designed by Charles Garnier in the...
The dissected organs of the male and female body, 1667. A plate from Johann Remmelin's 'Pinax Microcosmographicus'.
English anatomist John Banester delivers the Visceral Lecture at the Barber-Surgeons' Hall in London, 1581.
Woodcut by Elizabethan physician William Bullein, from 'A Newe Booke entituled Government of Healthe', published 1559.
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel on the Place du Carrousel in Paris, circa 1860. The Palais des Tuileries, which burnt down in 1871, stands behind.
British statesman William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine with the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in the Golden Wedding Porch at...
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal George Campbell sitting next to the Rajah of Sikkim at a meeting in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, 1973.
Edward, Prince of Wales outside Government House, Calcutta, during an eight-month official trip to India, 1875-76. In the first row on either side of...
Ferry carries passengers and their transport across Lake Windermere, between Bowness Royal Hotel and Furness Abbey, circa 1880.
Four thieves and pickpockets in police custody in Glasgow, circa 1865. From left to right, James Martin Lindsay, James Brown Cummings, Peter Hasson...
The Rotterdam Boat designed by De Son, 1653. It is 72 foot long and 12 foot high, with a breadth of 8 foot. It is powered by a clockwork device which...
The Peacemaker, a submarine invented by J. H. L. Tuck, attaches torpedoes to the hull of a warship, circa 1884. The torpedoes are attached to cork...
Design for a wooden submarine from around 1650. It would surface and submerge with the inflation and deflation of rows of goatskin airbags attached...
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler visits the First World War memorial to the Canadian soldiers killed at Vimy Ridge, France, circa 1940. With him is Wehrmacht...
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler dines alfresco with a group of generals, circa 1940. With him is SS leader Heinrich Himmler .
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with the permanent staff of the Felsennest , the Fuhrer Headquarters near Bad Munstereifel, Germany, circa 1940. Hitler used...
The map room at the Felsennest , the Fuhrer Headquarters near Bad Munstereifel, Germany, circa 1940. It was used by Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler during...
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with his chief adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Schmundt near a Fuhrer Headquarters in Germany, circa 1940.
Part of the camouflaged exterior of the Felsennest , the Fuhrer Headquarters near Bad Munstereifel, Germany, circa 1940. It was used by Nazi Leader...
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering and Hitler's Chief adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Schmundt...
Part of the camouflaged exterior of the Felsennest , the Fuhrer Headquarters near Bad Munstereifel, Germany, circa 1940. It was used by Nazi Leader...
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering outside a Fuhrer Headquarters, circa 1940.
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau picks his way through the rubble of a French town towards the end of World War I, 1918. A sign at the end of...
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , the Lord High Admiral who led the British fleet against the Spanish Armada. The motto of the Order of the...
Circa 1620, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , the Lord High Admiral who led the British fleet against the Spanish Armada. The battle is...
Gudula Rothschild, wife of Amschel Mayer Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family, circa 1810. Drawing by M. Oppenheim
The documents of Nazi activist Horst Wessel , including his membership papers of the Bismarckjugend, the youth movement of the DNVP , and the Bund...
French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou lies in state at Marseilles town hall, October 1934. He was fatally wounded by a stray bullet during the...
The grave of German Nazi activist Horst Wessel in graveyard of the Nikolaikirche, Berlin, 1933. The stone is inscribed 'Die Fahne Hoch' - the...
British tanks carrying fascines loaded onto railway wagons ready to take part in the Battle of Cambrai, 20th November 1917. The battle was the first...
An abandoned cannon on the Cawnpore Road in Lucknow, India after the siege of the British Residency during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The picture...
Major-General Sir Hugh Wheeler's entrenchment at Cawnpore , India, scene of the worst massacre of the Indian Rebellion , June 1857.
Lt. C.H. Mecham and Lt. Surgeon Anderson , of the British Hodson's Horse cavalry regiment, in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The regiment...
French knights at Agincourt on the morning of the battle, 25th October 1415. Painting by Sir John Gilbert, circa 1850