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The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

Here we see people lining up to experience the first underground railway in London. There seems to have been a single carriage, dvided into first a...

https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0002-first-tube-train-interior/ https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0003-first-tube-train-passengers/ The first London underground railway (now affectionately called the tube); the 1870 newspaper article about it is in the description in the first Web link above. It was narrow-gauge, 2'6", and would have been more cramped than the third picture suggests. #vintageEngravings #oldNews #fobo #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #IllustratedLondonNews #1870 #railway #railways #tube #londonUnderground #history

At Laundry

Au Lavoir Gravure de Smeeton et Tilly, d’après le tableau de Fernand Pelez. At laundry. Engraving by Smeeton and Tilly, after the tableau by Fer...

After a painting by Fernand Pelez, a Spanish-born artist living in Paris known for painting beggars and the homeless, circus performers, and the poor. Genre paintings like this became popular in the 19th century, alongside more traditional formal classical portraits and hunting or battle scenes. Often they are very idealised, but i think not here. #vintageArt #fobo #laundry #washing #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #GImp_3

Old Riverside Farm, Závist

The picture is captioned, Partie na Závisti , which refers to Závist, most likely the Celtic hill fort near the towns of Dolní Břežany and Zbr...

An old farm on the Vltava river, lived-in (chimney smoking), with caption Envy Party, or Game of Envy (Partie na Závisti). I bought this book in the Antikvariát Dlážděná in Prague for i think very little money; it’s heavy and approx 16x11 inches / 40 x 28cm. Large engravings scan well: paper fibre less significant. #fobo #vintageArt #vltava #engraving #farmArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3