Of the many images he made from the trip, 81 were reproduced as aquatints for the book.  Scenes include subjects from the entire journey, from Boston, through New York and Pennsylvania, down the Ohio to Cairo, up the Mississippi to St. Louis, and all the way to the headwaters of the Missouri.  Bodmer’s works from this trip were recognized as among the most painted images ever made of the region at that time, and included many depiction of local culture, artifacts and scenery.

On the return trip they went via Cleveland, Lake Erie, and the Erie canal to Albany and down the Hudson.  The images in the GALLERY are in order from the book, so the sequence of the trip can be somewhat although not precisely followed.  All the images are based on original very high resolution tif files, which have been cleaned up, straightened and enhanced for the best display.  The files on the site have all been converted to jpeg for easiest download and use.   Biographies and an account of the trip may be accessed offsite via THIS LINK.

Title: Maximilian, Prince of Wied’s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832–1834
Author:  Prince Maximilian of Wied (Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied)
Artist: Karl Bodmer
Publisher: Ackermann & Co.
Date Published: 1839

The images below all link to the corresponding pages in the  GALLERY  This is just a sample of the full 82 images.

Map to illustrate the Route of Prince Maximilian of Wied in the interior of North America From Boston to the Upper Missouri &a in 1832, 33, & 34.

Boston Lighthouse.

View of the Delaware near Bordentown.View of Bethlehem (Pennsylvania).

Forest scene on the Tobihanna, Alleghany Mountains.

Saukie and Fox Indians.

Tower-Rock, view on the Mississippi.

Offering of the Mandan Indians.

Magic pile erected by the Assiniboin Indians.

A Skin Lodge of an Assiniboin Chief.

A Blackfoot Indian on horse-back.

The Elkhorn Pyramid on the Upper Missouri.

Mändeh-Páhchu, A young Mandan Indian.

Dog-sledges of the Mandan Indians.

Bellvue, Mr. Dougherty's Agency on the Missouri.

Cleveland Lighthouse on the Lake Erie.

Forest scene on the Lehigh (Pennsylvania).New-Harmony on the Wabash.

Mássika, Saki Indian , Wakusásse, Musquake Indian.

Mouth of the Fox River (Indiana).

Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl. (Dakota Woman and Assiniboine Girl. )

Funeral scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre.

Mató-Tope, a Mandan chief.

Fort Clark on the Missouri (February 1834).

Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their Medecine Lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hankush.

Indian utensils and arms.

Fac simile of an Indian painting.

Pehriska-Ruhpa, Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse. (Dog Dance)

Remarkable hills on the upper Missouri.

Niagara Falls.

Please go to the GALLERY to see more images, all available for free download.  All are public domain and ready to be used i various sizes.  No credit is necessary, although a courtesy link and acknowledgement would be appreciated, such as “image courtesy of Old Book Art, www.oldbookart.com, or OldBookArt.

Owen Jones (1809-1874) was a British architect, decorative artist, author and educator. Through his efforts to publish his findings on the historic use of colour in decoration, he also became one of the pioneers of chromolithography. He published many seminal and definitive works, including The Grammar of Ornament (1856), a highly influential book in ornamentation and decorative arts.

The borders alone make this illuminated book memorable, and the illustrations are wonderful too. These images come from a completely disbound and very discolored, spotted and darkened copy I came across. I had to do a lot of image enhancement after the initial scans, and while I have restored most of the luster there may be some distortion from the original shades. This is seen on some of the matched borders, which originally were identical but are now slightly different in some of the images.

In any case, the images and the borders could have a lot of uses, so feel free to download and use however you please.  These are all public domain as I did all the scanning and manipulation myself from a pre 1900 book.

For anyone who is interested I have the raw, unedited, full pages as a separate sub-album. They are larger (and very dirty and ragged), so not as useful for most purposes.

The images are all in the GALLERY.

Title: The History of Joseph and His Brethren
Author: The Bible
Artist: Owen Jones
Publisher: Day & Son
Date Published: 1869

Here are a few sample images.  As usual, each images links to the appropriate page in the gallery.  Be sure to go to the GALLERY to see them all.

Joseph dreams of wheat

Jacob told his son is dead

Joseph pleases his master

Joseph weeps

Jacob with Ephraim and Manasseh

In 1838 and 1839, Roberts spent eleven months traveling and sketching throughout Egypt from Alexandria to Abu Simbel and through Sinai to Petra, Jerusalem, Palestine, and Lebanon. The 247 lithographs that Belgian engraver Louis Haghe then produced at the rate of one a month from the drawings executed during Roberts’ trip were published in six volumes as “The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia” (1842-1846) and “Egypt and Nubia” (1846-1849).

While these are available elsewhere, they are not usually very large or in an easy to use format (or they cost money).  These are from the Library of Congress, which has them in unedited TIF files.  I have cropped them , edited them, cleaned up any glaring dirtiness, and converted them to JPEG for easy download in the GALLERY.

Title: Egypt and Nubia
and: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
Author: David Roberts
Artist: David Roberts / lithographed by Louis Haghe
Publisher: F.G. (Francis Graham) Moon
Date Published: 1846-1849

Click an image to visit the gallery page where it is available in different sized for free download.

Dancing Girls at Cairo

Mosque of Sultan Hassan from the Great Square of the Rumeyleh

Cairo

Tombs of the khalifs, Cairo

Karnac Nov 29th 1838

General view of the island of Philae Nubia Nov 18th 1838

General view of the ruins of Luxor from the Nile 1838

Interior of the Temple of Aboo-Simbel Novr 9th 1838 Nubia

Portico of the Temple of Edfou--upper Egypt Novr 23rd 1838

Entrance to the Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia (TITLE PAGE)

The Coffee Shop, Cairo

Rather than being organized by the book they come from, they are roughly organized by subject. This is because they were given to me this way by the person who scanned them, William Struse, and I have kept his organization. The images are all public domain and he shared them with me with the understanding they would be offered for free here. He has only thumbnails on his site, and this was an easy way for him to share the larger images with a broader audience.  The maximum size of each image varies greatly.  I have edited them extensively to clean up the dirt and shadows and to darken, brighten, and otherwise enhance the lines.  A lot of text shows through from the obverse side of the leaves, but there was little that could be done about that.  I have been working on the captions, but so far have gotten to only about half of them.  There are close to 500 images in all.

Within the main GALLERY PAGE for this collection there are 14 separate albums, roughly sorted by subject.  They are:

Animals
Birds
Coins
Dwellings
Insects
Jewelry
Maps
Musical Instruments
Plants
Ships and Vehicles
Temples and Priests
Trees
Weapons
Other Images

Below are some sample image from each album.  Each thumbnail image will lead directly to that pictures page in the sub-album of the gallery.  Keep in mind there are many more images in the gallery than shown here.

ANIMALS

Mole-Rat

Wild Boar

Camels

Egyptian Asses

Egyptian Frogs

Horse

Serpent

Snake

Syrian Bear

Wild Goats

Wolf

BIRDS

Crane

Cormorant

Ospray (Osprey)

Owl

Stork

Vulture

Quail

COINS

Coin of Augustus

Coin of Agrippa

Coin of Macedonia

Denarius of Tiberius

various

DWELLINGS

Arab Huts and Sheep-cotes at Busheir

Tents

Tent and Man with Spear

Egyptian House

Walled City

INSECTS

Egyptian Fly

Hornet

Locusts

Pyramidal Nests of the White Ant

Scorpion

Spider

Turret Nests of the White Ant

JEWELRY

Assyrian Ear-rings

Different Forms of Eastern Crowns

Ear-rings

Egyptian Ring Money

Flambeaux, from Roman Gems

Hhegabs, or Amulets, of Modern Egypt

Khizam, or Nose-jewel, of modern Egypt

MAPS

Acre & Environs

Bethleem, Beit-Lahm

Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount

Environs of the Monastery of Mt. Sinai and of the Jebel Musa

Jaffa

Plan of Babylon

Southern Palestine

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

"Dulcimer" or Bagpipe

A Player on the Harp

Double-Flute Players

Egyptian Harp

Modern Egyptian Flute Player

Muse with an early form of lyre

Oriental Instruments of the Drum Kind

Roman Trumpet

Tambourine Players

PLANTS

Cassia

Cinnamon

Ears of Corn

Frankincense

Grapes of Palestine

Lign-Aloe

Melon

Spices - Nutmeg

Reeds

Sweet Cane

Rose of Sharon

Thorn

Buds of Spices - Pepper, Chestnut, catkins, florets, stamens, pistils

SHIPS AND VEHICLES

Ancient Chariot

Ancient Egyptian and Roman Ships

Ancient Egyptian War Chariot

Ancient Rowing Vessels

Camels, a Caravan

Tabernacle

Boats conveying stone and timber

Ethiopian Car, Drawn by Oxen

Turkish Arabah, or Cart

TEMPLES AND PRIESTS

Altar of burnt offering

Altar of Incense

Costume of the High Priest

The Golden Candlestick

High Priests on the day of Atonement

The Holy of Holies and the Officiating High Priest

Interior of the Tabernacle - the veil between the holy places removed

Moses Consecrating Aaron

Aaron with the Scape-goat showing Costume of the High Priest and Levites (scapegoat sacrifice)

Ram's-Horn Blower

Service of Gershonites

Service of the Merarites

Probable form of the Table of Showbread - Priests removing the old and placing the new

The Ark of the Covenant

The Molten Sea

Trespass Offering of the Poor

The Tabernacle in the Midst of the Encampment

TREES

Almond Tree - Amygdalus commums

Bamboo Tree

Commmon Elm - Ulmus Campestris

Date-Palm - Phoenix dactylifera

Fig Leaves

Fruit of Palm

Fruit of the Pinus Pinea, or Stone Pine

Gopher Wood - Cupressus Sempervirens

Sycainore Figs - Ficus Sycamorus

Tree planted by the waters

Wild Date Palm, found in the Sinai mountains

Wormwood - Artemisia absinthium

WEAPONS

Ancient Helmets and Coats of Mail

Ancient Persian Shields and Spears

Ancient Roman Combat

Ancient Swords and Daggers

Archers of Bowmen - bows arrows and shield

Catapulta

Balista prepared for discharge of a stone

Egyptian Fencers

Egyptian Maces and Clubs, Syrian Maces and Clubs

Man in Scale Armor

Ancient Armor, Persian Horseman

Testudo, or Tortoise-Shield

Throwing a Javelin

OTHER

Alabaster Boxes

Ancient Well

Assyrian seal or cylinder of Sennacherib

Assyrian Shoes

Clog Almanac - Raxon Reive Pole

Egyptian Needle-work

Fine Lime-grinding Mill at Cairo

Girl pouring Wine from a leathern Bottle

Mummy Cases and Marble Sarcophagi

Patterns of Egyptian Moasaic

Roman Lantern, Column of Trajan, Roman Flambeaux

Sheepcotes

Various Forms of Ancient Sun Dials

Ur of the Caldees

Use of the Style - From Montfaucon's Paleographia Graeca

Daniel in the Lions' Den

His trips, enforced vacations taken soon after his ordination as a Presbyterian minister, were dictated by what was apparently over-work, a mental breakdown, or some similar situation. In his words, an “attack on the brain first drove me from the haunts of men to seek mental repose and physical strength in the woods.” Whatever the reason, the book is seminal. He paints the mountains and the journey in the light of similar European tours historically taken to the Scottish Highlands or the Alps, and helps set the tone for the archetypal Adirondack tours and vacations that would follow. The routes he describe would be familiar to any later tourist, from the grand hotel vacationers of the 1890’s to the hikers of the current day. A lot of history has been made, and this is a great volume to help frame the very beginning of the era.

Chapters are written primarily in the form of letters, or a diary purporting to be sent to an acquaintance back home. In truth, much was written as dispatches to be published serially in the newspaper, and the book was put together later. Chapters detail the various settlements and regions he traverses, and he comments on everything from the life of the loggers to the imminent local extinction of the beaver (which was, indeed, destined to become extinct in the region only to be reintroduced 50 years later or so).

The book had a second edition in about 1854. The following review from the New York times is illustrative of the impact the book had almost immediately following its publication.

The Adirondack; or Life n the Woods, New and Enlarged Edition.

By J. T. Headley

Fifteen years ago Mr. Headley, in search of mental repose and physical strength, made his pioneer exploration of the then little known and less regarded region of the Adirondack. Since then the circulation of ten thousand copies of his vivid and spirited sketches of wild life has drawn general attention to the vast untrodden wilderness of New-York State, until what was then an enterprise to be undertaken with toil and labor, is now within the reach of every summer traveler. Ladies now visit the Adirondack country in considerable numbers, “and the white tents of their pleasant camps by the lake shore tend to enliven very much the solitude of the wilderness.” In this new edition are embodied the results of a recent tour rendered necessary by new explorations, which have opened new lakes and laid out new routes. Other than these, the actual changes wrought by time have been slight, and it still remains one of the wildest and most romantic regions on this continent. How long it will retain this character is impossible to say. Railroads are being pushed onward to its borders, speculators have their eye on its iron mines, lumbermen covet its forests. All, therefore, who would see the region in its pristine state of nature should hasten to visit it before advancing civilization had obliterated its peculiar features, and Mr. Headley’s volume will furnish everything that everything that is needful for a guide.

- The New York Times, August 15 1854.

There are eight very nice plates. Many copies have the plates missing, but I show here the (sometimes spotted and stained) plates from a copy of the 1849 Baker and Scribner first edition which I scanned. The book is available as a reprint, and both the first and second editions have been digitized by Google or various library collections. A later printing of the first edition is available (scanned) HERE.

Title: The Adirondack, of Life in the Woods
Author: J. T. Headley
Artist: “Inghan” and “Burt”
Publisher: Baker and Scribner
Date Published: 1849

The images are all available in the GALLERY.

The Adirondack

Lake Sanford

Lake Colden

Adirondack Pass

Lake Henderson

A Scene on Forked Lake

View on Raquette Lake

Lake Schroon