Heritage Gallery

William and Mary College, 1700s

Early view of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1700s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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British army advancing at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Duke of Wellington ordering the entire British line to advance at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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First Ferris wheel, Chicago Worlds Fair, 1893

Ferris wheel -250 feet in diameter, 36 cars - at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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