America Collection (page 5)

Des Moines, Iowa. State capitol in background. Date 1940 May

New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars. Date 1942 Aug.?

Emma de Burgh, tattooed lady, 1897
Emma de Burgh, tattooed lady. The work on her back depicts the Last Supper, by Da Vinci, and was regarded at the time to be one of the finest piece of tattooing produced in America

Automat Dining Room - Broadway, New York, USA
Automat Dining Room - 1557 Broadway, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City

Kenilworth Race Track, Buffalo, New York, USA Date: circa 1906

Redondo Beach and pier, southern California, U.S.A. Date: late 1960s

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine or Kennecott Mine
Bingham Canyon Copper Mine (Kennecott Copper Mine), Utah, USA Date: circa 1910s

The Bronx, New York
South West From Roof of Fieldston Garden Apartments. Looking south-west from the roof of the Fieldston Garden Apartments, 238th Street and Riverdale Avenue, Bronx; houses, trees and street visible

State Penitentiary at Stateville, Joliet, Illinois, USA
Interior view of a cell block at the Illinois State Penitentiary at Stateville, near Joliet, Illinois, USA. The prison was designed using the panopticon principle promoted by Jeremy Bentham

Suicide on the Little Big Horn. Custers Last Stand in 1876 when he led the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army into battle with the Lakota

Oil Gusher at Houston, Texas, USA

The Cawston Ostrich Farm - South Pasadena, California, USA. A large ostrich pulls a wheeled cart, containing an enthusiastic lady passenger! The boss of the farm in bowler hat stands proudly behind

New Empire State Express train
Poster advertising the Empire State Express steam train of the New York Central System as it speeds across the American landscape

South America by Royal Mail
Poster for Royal Mail Lines Ltd - South America by Royal Mail - depicting a large ocean-going steamship

New York Skyline with Brooklyn Bridge
View across the East River toward the Brooklyn Bridge and the skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York

The Marriage of General Mite and Millie Edwards, Mancheste
Engraving showing a series of scenes from the marriage of General Mite, real name Francis Joseph Flynn, and Miss Millie Edwards held at St. James Hall, Manchester, 1884

Aztecs Warriors 1521
Despite the loss of the Fort of Xoloc and the raising to the ground of the Old Palace at Tenochtitlan, the exhausted Aztecs fight furiously on

Flying Saucers Have Landed, book cover
FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED, a book by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. In it, Adamski tells of his meeting with a Venusian in the Californian desert on 20 November 1952

Columbus / Voyage Map
A map showing the voyages of Christopher Columbus

Pilgrim Fathers Depart
102 Protestants (24 of them women) leave Plymouth for America in the Mayflower. Only 35 were Puritans. The phrase Pilgrim Fathers was first used in 1799

Turkey and Wishbone
Eat hearty - let the daye be your excuse - an invitation to Thanksgiving over- indulgence on the fourth Thursday in November

Glyptodon Asper
a gigantic forerunner of the armadillo, from the Pleistocene period in South America (near Buenos Aires) more than two metres in length

Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer
Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator, coloniser and explorer on behalf of Spain. He undertook four voyages of exploration, first reaching the American continent in 1492

Boston Tea Party 1773
Boston citizens, dressed as Indians, board English ships and throw tea chests into the harbour in protest against taxation

Pilgrim Fathers First Christmas 1621
A man fills a tankard of beer from a small keg, as various men sit or stand around drinking. Date: 1621

Entrance to Harbour, Buffalo, New York State, USA
Entrance to the Harbour, Buffalo, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Boating at Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, USA, showing the Skating Pavilion and Canal. Date: circa 1910

The Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA - very interesting little naval steamer shown in the foreground. Date: 1908

International Bridge between El Paso, Texas / Juarez, Mexico
Splendid view of the International Bridge between El Paso, Texas / Juarez, Mexico. Date: circa 1910s

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA - Hotels and the Beach Date: circa 1910s

Industrial Trust Building, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Date: circa 1930s

Young Americas dilemma. Illustration shows a schoolboy standing outside a Public School; on the left is Charles M. Schwab sitting atop a large money bag labeled Manager of Steel Trust $1, 000

Indian Summer. Squam Lake, N. H
Indian Summer. Squam Lake, New Hampshire. Autumn scene with colourful foliage on the trees around the lake Date: 1868

Business section, Dubuque, Iowa. The rich live in houses on the cliffs seen in background. Date 1940 Apr

Lady Moscow, horse harness racing. Union Course, L.I. Date: 1850

Cuba - First Pan American Airways service
Cuba - The First Pan American Airways (PAN-AM) service between Key West, United States and Havana, Cuba in October 1927. Pan American Airways was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney

Plaza Hotel, New York
The Tea Room at the Plaza Hotel, New York City, America

Beekman Tower, New York
Beekman Tower on 49th Street, New York City, America

Markham / Percival Gull
Beryl Markham, English pioneer aviator, and her Percival Gull: she was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from London to North America

COYPU
(myocastor coypus) also known as Nutria : it comes from South America but is or was farmed for its fur

Banastre Tarleton (1782)
SIR BANASTRE TARLETON British soldier in the Revolutionary Wars in America (depicted here as Lieutenant Colonel)

Female high jumper in orange costume
A female high jumper in an orange costume leaping over a pole

Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Date: circa 1905

East Main Street, Chanute, Kansas, USA
View of East Main Street, Chanute, Kansas, USA. Date: circa 1920

Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in the heart of the French Quarter on the corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets

The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - New York
The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - 199, 201 and 203 Cherry Street, New York, USA. The old windmill of 1776 and the modern mill of 1876. Date: circa 1890

Washington - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac Park
Washington DC, USA - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac Park, Riverside Drive. Date: 1920

American St Patricks Day Card Date: circa 1910

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