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bits and pieces of antique French handwriting / calligraphy, letters, documents and ephemera from the 19th Century, isolated over a white  background, cut out retro journaling or collage design elements
Fountain pen on an antique handwritten letter. Vintage nib pen and handwritten english cursive style font copperplate, spencerian. Old history background. Retro style.
Photograph of the bottom  of the Declaration of Independence centered on the most famous signature in American history
Old vintage manuscript writing in cursive
An American flag close-up and folded and place on the signatures on the Declaration of Independence.
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
Macro Photograph of the John Hancock Signature
An old, historical stamp duty stamp
Holy Bible and Constitution draft close up, with the words „We the People“. Retro effect. Concept of U.S. Constitution inclusion in the Bible.
Tight shot of the famous signature of John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence that was signed on July 4th, 1776. Other signatures viable are members of the Maryland delegation. This document lead to the War for Independence or Revolutionary war between the colonists and England.
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
John Hancocks famous signature on the Declaration of Independence
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
mysterious hand-written French letter, black on white and on a paper background, romantic mail / postage, handwriting, Paris or calligraphy themed background or texture, portrait format, fictive document, my own handwriting
Vintage postcard back, handwriting, French, Stamp 1900s
This page is a detail out of a statement in a witch trial from 1619. A young woman and two men were then burnt on a stake found guilty for witch craft.
blank vintage postcard sent from Cherbourg, France  in 1901, a very good historic background of postal service, can be used for any usage for any historic situation.
Fountain pen on an antique handwritten letter. Vintage nib pen and handwritten english cursive style font copperplate, spencerian. Old history background. Retro style.
The U.S. Supreme Court building and a gavel overlayed on a textured American flag with the opening words to the U.S. Constitution, We The People, in the background.
Signatures on the US Declaration of Independence, most prominently John Hancock
old 18th letter
Sucre, Bolivia, April 12 2023 : close-up of the Bolivian Declaration of Independence in the Casa de la Libertad. Original manuscript.
Old vintage handwriting, original, 1825, name, William Wigson, 19th Century ephemera
Close up the signature of John Hancock on Declaration of Independence with shallow depth of field
US Constitution close-ups, details, US  flag, series.
old yellowed sheet with few writings
Close-up of some of the  signatures on the Declaration of Independence.
Macro Photograph of the Declaration of Independence
Assignat of ten cents - Law of 24 October 1792 - Series 598 th - Year I of the Republic - signature: Guyon.
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