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

As always, these public domain jpg images are free of charge and may be used for any purpose.  Although I have put a lot of effort into cleaning spots and smudges, as well as enhancing the colors, they are still in the public domain and have no usage restrictions.  Donations for my efforts and for the costs of running this site are always appreciated, but are by no means expected or necessary.

All 130 or so items may be browsed and downloaded in the gallery.   Images may be downloaded one at a time in at least 3 different sizes, or you may download a large number at once via ZIP file by using the shopping cart feature in the gallery.  It is called a shopping cart, but there is no charge.

Here are some samples.  Go to the GALLERY to see them all.

King or nobleman on a throne holding a frond. Rounded hat on head, feet on a stool or ottoman

Supplicating Man

Mustachioed Warrior

Robed Woman

Helmeted Knight

Dramatic Friar

Charging knight on cloaked horse

Four people

Man with spurs and sword

Woman and Child

Man at a Hearth

Man on one knee

Man with a Letter

Man with Flowing Golden Hair

Man with Multi-Colored Legs

Nun with Prayer Beads

Pointing Man

Robed Man with Staff

Serious Looking Rider

Very Well Dressed and Fancy Man With Cape

Woman Beseeching God.

Woman in Green Dress and Yellow Cape.

Women on Boat or Gondola

Woman with Spiked Crown

Go to the GALLERY to see more.

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

It is a very hefty book, and the binding is fairly weak. The cover is in very good condition, though, and is intact and clean complete with the gilt picture of a bird, so I will be putting the book up for sale in my bookstore soon. While the plates have unfortunately been stamped by an overzealous Australian librarian, the book remains one of the nicer extant copies I have come across. This is largely because the cover is in such good shape, not to mention that the book is still intact (there were only 300 or so copies issued with the colred plates, and most of these seem to have been dissembled so the plates could be framed or sold).

There are 141 full plates each containing two to three birds, and 303 figures, all of which I have edited as stand alone images from their plate.   The platesare in one folder, and the images in others.  For now, I am doing two versions of the individual bird images.  One is a cleaned up (heavily edited) JPG version.  This preserves the paper in its cleaned up state.  There will be noticeable edit marks, as there were a lot of flaws and dirtiness.   The other version will be a PNG version with the background removed (made transparent).   These should be useful for a lot of applications, although they will not all be posted for some time as it takes a while to make edit each PNG image.

Title: Zoology of New York, or the New-York Fauna, Part II, Birds
Author: James Ellsworth De Kay
Artist: J. W. (John William) Hill
Lithographer: George Endicott; and Packard, Gavit & Co.
Publisher: J. F. Schreiber
Date Published: 1844

The FULL PLATES are HERE.

The individaul FIGURES are HERE.

I will post a link to the PNG folder when I get it started.

Sample plate:

Plate001 Figure 1 The Bald Eagle (Haliaetos leucocephalus) Figure 2 The Slate-colored Hawk (Astur fuscus)

and the figures as they look once separated and edited:

Figure 1 - The Bald Eagle

The Slate-colored Hawk (Astur fuscus) (Sharp-shinned hawk) (Accipiter striatus)

The Wonderland Gallery is HERE.  The first item on the page is the subfolder with the PNG images.

Title: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Author: Lewis Carroll
Artist: John Tenniel
Date Published: 1865

These are very nicely done and historically important chromolithographed plates from a book which was unfortunately damaged and coming apart when I acquired it.  The book, The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture, itself was an important study that helped to establish that, with few exceptions, hawks and owls were beneficial to farmers and not the scourge they were commonly perceived as.

I have very large digital copies available for download in the gallery.  The originals have been put up for sale in my bookstore, and can be seen for sale HERE.

Title: The Hawks and Owls of the United States

U.S. Department of Agriculture
Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy
Bulletin No. 3

Prepared under the Direction of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Ornithologist,
by A. K. Fisher, M.D., Assistant Ornithologist
Published by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington
Government Printing Office
1893

The thumbnails below will link directly to the image page in the Gallery folder where the full sized image can be downloaded for free in various sizes.

Swallow-Tailed Kite

Mississippi Kite

Marsh Hawk

Sharp Shinned Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

American Goshawk

Red-Tailed hawk

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

Broad-Winged Hawk

American Rough-Legged Hawk

Ferruginous Rough-Leg

Golden Eagle

Bald Eagle

Duck Hawk

Pigeon Hawk

Sparrow Hawk

American Osprey

Barn Owl

American Long-Eared Owl

Short-Eared Owl

Barred Owl

Screech Owl

Great Horned Owl

Burrowing Owl

Dwarf Screech Owl

I bought this atlas a couple of years ago, and as the binding was falling apart they were very easy to scan.   I have decided that the atlas itself is not salvageable as at least one map seemed to be missing,  the binding was disintegrating, the spine was missing, and the covers had fallen off.  Thus, I am selling the maps individually in my bookstore, ZephyrusBooks.com, on this page HERE.

There are about 100 maps in the book.  This atlas had maps of all the French Departments and overseas possessions of the time.  Every department of France at the time is represented on its own page, with political, demographic and other information on the reverse Vuillemin issued may version s of this atlas over the years, changing the border details, title decorations, fonts and the like over from edition to edition.   The size would also vary, and while not the larges examples, these are larger than many.

Alexandre Vuillemin (1812-1880) produced a number of atlases, and his maps are noted for the extensive margin illustrations – vignettes, famous people, and views of cities. Each map was titled with a different font, and the fonts, decorations and marginalia changed with each subsequent edition. Later editions were often more elaborate and sometimes larger than the maps I have scanned here.

The date is approximate, but fairly accurate.  I have checked the demographics given for each department against historical population figures, and the match the decade.  The date, 1858, is printed on the large fold out map of France in the rear of the atlas.

The full plates are available for free download in large resolution HERE.

Individual thumbnails are below, each of which links directly to the page for the map itself.  All are not loaded yet, but I am active working on it.  The entire album mail be downloaded in ZIP format, or each image saved individually in a number of preset sizes.

Title: La France et ses Colonies: Atlas illustré cent cartes dressées d’après les cartes de Cassini, du Dépot de la guerre, des Ponts-et-chaussées et de la Marine par Vuillemin. Texte redigé d’après les documents officiels et sur un plan entièrement nouveau. réunissant en forme de tableaux 1° La Division administrative, politique, judiciaire, religieuse, militaire, etc. ; 2° Les Vicissitudes historiques; 3° La Biographie; 4° La Statistique; 5° Les Ressources agricoles, industrielles, commerciales; 6° Les établissements d’instruction ou d’utilité publique; 7° la description détaillée de tous les chefs-lieux d’arrondissement et de lieux remarquables; 8° Enfin les Curiosités de la Physionomie morale de chaque département et de chaque colonie française par Ernest Poirée.)
Author: Alexandre Vuillemin and Ernest Poirée
Artist: Alexandre Vuillemin
Publisher: Migeon
Date Published: 1858 (circa)

Posters, cards, stamps, mugs and other items with images of these maps may be purchased HERE.

Here are the Maps:

Ain Department

Aisne Department

Algerie Department (Algeria)

Allier Department

Ardeche Department

Ardennes Department

Ariege Department

Aube Department

Aude Department

Aveyron Department

More to follow.  All 101 maps are now in the gallery.  I will remove this message when all are linked to here.  In the meantime check the album HERE to see them all.

I post it mainly for the numerous color and black & white illustrations, but I have added a folder of the entire book (unedited, raw scans in very high resolution) for anyone interested in the book as a whole.  It is written in, but then again it was a child’s school book.

I have not been able to edit and post the cleaned up pictures yet, but will get to it shortly.  In the meantime the full page scans (very large) are HERE.

Title: Des Kindes erstes Lesebuch Illustrierte Fibel mit farbigen Bildern (The Child’s Alphabet Book Primer Illustrated with Colored Pictures)
Author: Rudolf Dietlein
Artist: Various
Publisher: J. F. Schreiber
Date Published: 1880′s (circa)

Here is what the images currently look like.   They are very large, so there is plenty of room to play with if you want to download them and edit them yourself before I get around to it.

The book itself will be up for sale in my SHOP sometime soon.

Hound with Hedgehog, Boy with DOnkey, Clocks, Children and Eggs

The book opens with an extensive description of the Battle Flags.   I cannot transcribe it all, but the text is available at Google Books, HERE.

As quoted from Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama at Birmingham:

“Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most well-known female figures in the Union relief movement. Before the Civil War broke out, Mary had already devoted her life to social, humanitarian and charitable causes. In her early twenties, she worked as a family tutor on a large rural Virginia plantation. In this position, she came face to face with the injustices of slavery and became a staunch abolitionist. During these pre-war years, Mary also became known for her involvement in the temperance movement, which especially thrived after her marriage to fellow temperance supporter and Universalist minister, Daniel Parker Livermore, in 1845. Mrs. Livermore organized a juvenile temperance group, the Cold Water Army, for whom she wrote short stories and read them aloud (Holland 37-38). In 1857, the Livermores and their three daughters moved from Massachusetts to Chicago, where Mary assisted her husband in editing the Northwest Universalist paper, The New Covenant. There, she also helped found two charities, the Home for Aged Women and the Hospital for Women and Children (American Reformers).

When the war began, many relief organizations quickly emerged in the North, and in 1861 the United States Sanitary Commission was formed to coordinate these efforts. Mary Livermore, convinced of the need for female participation in war relief, and with the support of her husband, resigned many of her former obligations and became a leader in the Northwest Sanitary Commission, a division of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (American Reformers; Heidler & Heidler 3: 1201). In December 1862, Livermore and her friend, Jane C. Hoge, were appointed co-directors of the Chicago office. As a leader in the Commission, Livermore set up local Soldier’s Aid Societies in her vicinity, raised funds and medical supplies for the soldiers, lobbied for the relief effort, wrote Commission reports, and inspected hospitals. She personally delivered and coordinated the delivery of supplies to the battle fronts. During these many visits, she acted as an attentive nurse, and transported discharged, wounded soldiers to their homes (Holland 39). In 1863, Livermore and Hoge organized the Great Northwestern Sanitary Commission Fair, for which Mary convinced President Lincoln to donate the Emancipation Proclamation document. The fair raised nearly $100,000 for the soldiers, and it became the model for similar fund raisers in the North (Heidler & Heidler 3: 1202).

As part of her war relief work, Mary Livermore had many opportunities to speak, during which she rallied women together and encouraged them to volunteer. After the war, she applied her speaking ability to the fights for temperance and women’s suffrage, often incorporating her Civil War experiences in these orations. In 1887, she first published a detailed account of her Sanitary Commission days in My story of the war. Not only did Livermore tell her own story in this volume, but she also included details regarding the work of other Northern nurses and women volunteers (Heidler & Heidler 3: 1201-1202). This work is a great and important primary resource on the role of women in the Union relief effort. Later in life, she published another autobiography, The story of my life, which includes additional anecdotes from her Civil War experiences (Freemon 86).     The Civil War Memoirs Of The Famous Nurse, Relief Organizer, And Suffragette”

I have posted the original scans of these in very large size, although I have not edited or enhanced them heavily.   I cleaned up and edited smaller versions and posted those as well.  Currently, only the flag images have been cleaned up.

You will find four versions of each flag image in the Flag folder of this book in the Gallery:  The whole page including captions, the image only, and two cleaned up versions.   Cleaning up the versions always involves compromising on color versus contract, so I posted a lighter and a darker image of each.  They are not that different from each other, but enough to make it worthwhile to provide a choice.

I will post cleaned up versions of the other plates as I get to it.  (If I get to it – you know how it goes…) They are somewhat dark, some of them, so a bit of lightening of the aging would be good.

I have not scanned the portraits yet, but that is next on my list.

Title: My Story Of The War: My Story Of The War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as a Nurse in the Union Army…
Author: Mary A. Livermore
Artist: Various (engraved by J.J. Cade, New York)
Publisher: A. D. Worthington and Company
Date Published: 1887 (1892)

All images are available in the Gallery or by clicking the images below.

Famous Union Battle Flags 1

1. Eleventh Regt Conn. Volunteers
2. Headquarter Guidon Old Vermont Brigade
3. Gen. Sedgwick’s 6th Corps Headquarters Flag

Famous Union Battle Flags 2

1. Twenty first Mass. Reg’t.
2. Fortieth N.Y. Reg’t.
3. Fourteenth Conn. Reg’t.
4. Twenty fourth Mass. Reg’t.
5. First Maine Heavy Art.
6. First Conn. Heavy Art.

Famous Union Battle Flags 3

1. Thirteenth Ills. Reg’t.
2. Twenty fourth Mich. Reg’t.
3. Eighth Mo. Reg’t.
4. First Minn. Art.
5. Second Mich. Art.
6. Seventh N.Y. Heavy Art.

Confederate Battle Flags

1. From Bragg’s Army
2. Forty second Miss. Reg’t.
3. Twelfth Miss. Cavalry
4. Ninth Texas Reg’t.
5. Austin’s Battery
6. So. Carolina Flag
7. Texas Black Flag
8. Virginia Flag

Famous Union Battle Flags 5

1. First N.J. Cavalry
2. Forty-eighth N.Y. Reg’t.
3. One hundred and fiftieth Penn. Reg’t. (“Bucktails”)
4. Eighty third Penn. Reg’t.
5. Ninth N.J. Reg’t.
6. One hundred and fifth N.Y. Regt.

Famous Union Battle Flags 6

1. Fifth N.H. Reg’t.
2. First R.I. Cavalry
3. Sixteenth Conn. Reg’t.
4. Fifty fourth (Colored) Mass. Reg’t.
5. First Vermont Cavalry
6. Twentieth Mass. Reg’t.

Famous Union Battle Flags 7

“Old Abe” War Eagle of the 8th Wis. Reg’t.
1. Ninth Iowa Reg’t.
2. Second Kansas Battery
3. Second Wis. Reg’t.
4. Seventh Mo. Reg’t.
5. Second Kansas Reg’t.
6. First Ohio Battery

Famous Union Battle Flags 8

1. Seventy-eighth Ohio Reg’t.
2. Seventy-eighth Penn. Reg’t.
3. Thirty-second Ind. Reg’t.
4. Ninth Ky. Reg’t.One hundred and twenty ninth Ills. Reg’t.
5. Eighteenth N.Y. Cavalry

Plate 1 - A Woman in Battle - Michigan Bridget Carrying the Flag

Plate 2 - The Dying Soldier - The Last Letter From Home

Plate 3 - Prayer Meeting in a Contraband Camp - Washington 1862

Plate 4 - Fleeing From the Land of Bondage - On the Mississippi River in 1863

Plate 5 - Our Battery at the Front - Reveille After an Anxious Night

Plate 6 Death of Sergeant Dyer While Spiking His Gun

Plate 7 - Midnight on the Battlefield

Plate 8 - A Rebel Shell Bursting in a Union Hospital