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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 32

Posted in Ancient History, Architecture, Arts and Crafts, Best pictures, Children, Educational card, Fashion, games, Historical articles, History, Industry, Weapons on Tuesday, 24 November 2015

We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards.
The first picture shows weaving and carpet making in Ancient Greece.

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Weaving and carpet making in Ancient Greece

The second picture shows mediaeval youths at weapon practice.

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The Exercise Yard

The third picture shows Zinc manufacturing.

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Zinc manufacturing. Roller

High-resolution scans of all educational cards can be found in the Look and Learn picture library.

The best pictures from educational trade cards, 21

Posted in Ancient History, Artist, Arts and Crafts, Aviation, Best pictures, Communications, Educational card, Famous battles, Historical articles, History, Myth, Nature, Politics, Royalty, Transport, Travel, War on Monday, 23 November 2015

We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards.
The first picture shows the Mail balloon at the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871.

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Mail balloon at the Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

The second picture shows the Earl of Richmond reconciling the Houses of Lancaster and York.

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The Earl of Richmond Reconciles the Houses

The third picture shows Prometheus creating man from clay and Athena giving him life.

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Prometheus creates man from clay and Athena (Minerva) gives him life

High-resolution scans of all educational cards can be found in the Look and Learn picture library.

The best pictures from educational trade cards, 11

Posted in Arts and Crafts, Aviation, Best pictures, Educational card, Famous battles, Heroes and Heroines, Historical articles, History, Religion, Sport, Sporting Heroes, Travel, War on Monday, 23 November 2015

We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards.
The first picture shows an arrival at Brussels at night in the 1911 Air Race.

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Arrival at Brussels at night

The second picture shows a Tunisian potter.

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Tunisian potter

The third picture shows El Cid fighting the Moors.

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El Cid fighting the Moors

High-resolution scans of all educational cards can be found in the Look and Learn picture library.

Napoleon with the Rosetta stone

Posted in Africa, Ancient History, Archaeology, Art, Arts and Crafts, Historical articles, History on Sunday, 22 November 2015

This well drawn and detailed picture shows Napoleon with two French scholars; one of them is examining the mysterious Rosetta Stone, which had remained a source of fascination for Napoleon since being unearthed by a soldier during the Egyptian Campaign, and which would eventually be claimed by the British after the French defeat in 1801.

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The Rosetta stone by Pat Nicolle

Many more pictures of Napoleon Bonaparte can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

The Burial of Tutankhamun

Posted in Ancient History, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Arts and Crafts, Famous news stories, Historical articles, History, Religion, Royalty, Superstition on Saturday, 21 November 2015

This highly unusual painting illustrates the elaborate rituals which accompanied the burial of Tutankhamun, the most famous of the Egyptian pharaohs. It pictures the moments which sealed off forever (so it was thought) the funeral chamber containing the precious artefacts in our picture, and the sacred mummy of Tutankhamun himself, wearing the fabled gold and enamel mask. Thousands of years later a man called Howard Carter would see a very similar scene.

Tutankhamun.

Burial of Tutankhamun by Peter Jackson

Many more pictures of Ancient Egypt can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

A Picture Palace of Edwardian Times

Posted in Arts and Crafts, Cinema, Famous Inventors, Historical articles, History, Inventions, London, Railways, Technology on Saturday, 21 November 2015

This striking and historically accurate picture shows the sensational screening of the Lumiere film, L’Arrivee d’un Train A la Ciotat at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London. It is a perfect pictorial representation of one of the famous films and great moments in the early history of cinema.

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A Picture Palace of Edwardian Times by Peter Jackson

Many more pictures of cinema can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

Workers from the Iron Age

Posted in Anthropology, Arts and Crafts, Historical articles, History, Industry, Prehistory, Weapons on Saturday, 21 November 2015

This fascinating and accurate picture perhaps shows the beginnings of the British steel industry. Here we see Iron Age workers in action, with a well-built furnace in the background and carefully crafted moulds for axe-heads on the bench, carefully being filled with the molten metal.

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The Iron Age by Peter Jackson

Many more pictures of prehistoric times can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

The old and famous city of Kano in Nigeria

Posted in Africa, Architecture, Arts and Crafts, Famous landmarks, Historical articles, History on Saturday, 21 November 2015

This is an historically accurate and fascinating picture of Kano, an old and famous Islamic city in Nigeria which contains some of Africa’s most impressive architectural treasures, all built in the distinctive Hausa style, especially the mosques and palaces, which are constructed with highly decorated mud bricks and rich in ornamentation.

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The old and famous city of Kano in Nigeria

Many more pictures of Africa can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

Scholars at their studies in the library of Bokhara

Posted in Arts and Crafts, Education, Famous landmarks, Historical articles, History, Law, Literature, Philosophy, Religion on Friday, 20 November 2015

This restrained and elegant picture shows Islamic scholars at their studies in the library of Bokhara, one of the great libraries of Europe, and especially so after the city’s conversion (three times) to Islam, after a long period of Persian cultural hegemony.

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Scholars at their studies in the library of Bokhara, one of the most famous of all the Islamic libraries

Many more pictures of Islam can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

Pablo Picasso in Paris, 1900

Posted in Art, Artist, Arts and Crafts, Famous artists, Historical articles, History on Friday, 20 November 2015

This unusual image depicts the great painter Picasso, who went to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition in 1900. It shows the handsome young Spaniard in Montmartre gazing in an art dealer’s gallery window at several paintings in gilt frames. Whether he likes or loathes them we cannot tell; but it was in Paris that he discovered art of which he had known nothing in provincial Spain.

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In 1900, a young Spaniard came to Paris – Pablo Picasso

Many more pictures of painters can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.