World places:historical views Gallery

Rio de Janeiro about 1700

Rio de Janeiro from the harbor while a Portuguese colony, circa 1700.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an 18th-century illustration

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Prague on the Vltava River, 1800s

Hradschin Palace, Kleinseite, and bridge over the Vltava River in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Constantinople, showing a procession at a city gate, about 1340.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 14th-century illustration

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