TAD1755630: signature of the Tien-Tzin treaty between the French and the chinese in 1858, (this treaty opened new trade counters for the western countries in China) engraving by Edmond Morin / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752908: John Lord Churchill (1650-1722) Duke of Marlborough english general 3rd governor of Company of the Hudson bay in 1685-1692, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752916: advertising poster for the exhibition of Eugene Godard's hot air balloon in Paris (which made several ascents between 1864 and 1866) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753088: Allied bombings on Creil station, France, may 10, 1944, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755713: Maria Vetsera (1872-1889), mistress of archduke Rodolphe of Habsburg, here with Archduke and crown prince of Austria, both died in Mayerling tragedy on january 30, 1889 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755781: haymaking in Wickersheim in Alsace in 1905 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753162: Abbot of Saint Martin, marquis of Miskou, character of book "La mandarinade, ou, Histoire comique du mandarinat de M. l'abbe de Saint-Martin, marquis de Miskou" by Charles Poree, 1769 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755826: triumphant entrance of the army in Vienna (Austria) under orders of French emperor Napoleon 1st on november 13, 1805, engraving after a drawing by Ziegler / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753218: Belfry in fire in Ypres, Belgium, after the bombings november 22, 1914 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755922: Concorde square in Paris in 1906 with the obelisk / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753434: Project of the trading post in Mahe, India and its fortifications built in 1778 ( bought by France in 1721, it became a French trading post) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753467: Cartoon of French author Frederic Soulie at the time of his book "Memoirs of the Devil" 1838-1839, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756167: View Madrid palace, engraving, 17th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753525: oyster eaters in a tavern in 18th century, France, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753532: Liner Normandy (built in SaintNazaire and launched on october, 29 1932) of the Transatlantic Company, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756238: Castle of Saint Germain en Laye, royal residence, (France), engraving by Perelle, 17th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756268: Part of White Hall palace in London to the Thames, engraving, 17th ce,tury / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756283: French wounded soldiers have taken refuge in Saint Pierremont church where they are waiting to be treated, 1st world war / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752987: Allied bombings on Strasbourg, Alsace, august 11, 1944 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752070: royalist slogans at time of referendum about abdication of belgian king Leopold III, june 1945, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752125: Traditionnel suit : Brittany's headgear from Plerieux and the outskirts of Saint-Brieuc, c.1905 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753357: Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish novelist and poet, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752166: Conquest of Algeria by France : capture of Constantine in 1837 : death of French general Damremont, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1753442: People during bombings of Madrid November 1936 during Spanish War, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752364: German soldiers watching street scene in macedonian town : turkish men playing chess during the war Macedonia 1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1752392: Pierre Jean de Beranger (1780-1857) French social and political songwriter, engraving / Bridgeman Images

XRH1702992: Austrian chemist who discovered Praseodymium and Neodymium / Bridgeman Images

XRH1705816: JP Morgan (1837-1913) American financier and banker c. 1902, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

XRH1706045: Jules Sebastien Dumont d'Urville (1790-1841) French explorer here in Tonga islands in 1827, engraving / Bridgeman Images

XRH1706140: Desperate American family during the Great Depression, 1929-1932 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRH1704263: Souk of Erfous Tafilalet, Morocco : trade of the Doum palm tree / Bridgeman Images

XRH1703526: Louise Michel (1830-1905) French feminist,anarchist and socialist activist here with Paule Minck (r)(Communard, socialist, prominent feminist and the mother of the anarchist HenriJullien) and Marie Ferre (l), at the time of the 1870 Paris Commune / Bridgeman Images

XRH1706373: Urbanus VIII (Maffeo Barberini 1568-1644) pope in 1623-1644, engraving / Bridgeman Images

XRH1706388: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Italian composer / Bridgeman Images

XRH1703862: the Bakhtiyaris : fighters of Iran who played important part during the Constitutional Revolution in 1909 and contributed to the fall of shah Mohammed Ali / Bridgeman Images

XRH1703894: Prince Napoleon Jerome (1822-1891) , cousin of Napoleon III , with his wife Princess Clotilde of Savoy , daughter of Vittorio Emanuele II / Bridgeman Images