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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
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves from the shackles of slavery.
Sucre, Bolivia, April 12 2023 : close-up of the Bolivian Declaration of Independence in the Casa de la Libertad. Original manuscript.
Vinatge handwriting on old blue paper background, Petit journal pour rire, french 19th Century
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.
a vintage blank postcard printed in France in earlier 1900s,  ready for any usage of  historic events background related to mail delievery description.
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
Assignat of ten cents - Law of 24 October 1792 - Series 598 th - Year I of the Republic - signature: Guyon.
John Hancocks famous signature on the Declaration of Independence
old 18th letter
Macro Photograph of the Declaration of Independence
Old vintage handwriting, original, 1825, name, William Wigson, 19th Century ephemera
Undefined text with french words. Handwritten letter. Handwriting. Calligraphy. Manuscript. Script. Font. Abstract texture background
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
Fountain pen on an antique handwritten letter. Vintage nib pen and handwritten english cursive style font copperplate, spencerian. Old history background. Retro style.
This column marks the fire of 1666 and was completed in 1677 by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. It is 202 feet (62 metres) high, the same distance to Pudding Lane where the fire began. This pillar was commenced during the mayoralty of Sir Richard Ford, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1671. It was further elevated under the mayoralties of Sir George Waterman, Knight, Sir Robert Hanson, Knight, Sir William Hooker, Knight, Sir Robert Viner, Knight, and Sir Joseph Sheldon, Knight; and completed during the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Davies, in 1677.
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.
Sign on the wall of Paul Revere's Mall beside Old North Church, this sign gives details of Benjamin Franklin. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Francois de Voltaire a portrait from old French money
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
antique french postcard with greeting text from paris 1920. vintage sentimental retro style background
An American flag close-up and folded and place on the signatures on the Declaration of Independence.
Fountain pen on an antique handwritten letter. Vintage nib pen and handwritten english cursive style font copperplate, spencerian. Old history background. Retro style.
Monument to The Great Fire of London on Fish Street Hill, London which marks the fire of 1666 and was built in 1677. This is the east side which depicts when the monument began and and under which mayors.
Macro Photograph of the John Hancock Signature
Part of letter from a young lady to her father, written in 1833. The family was Quaker, which is evident by the use of 'thee' and 'thy' in the letter as well as the way the date was presented - 1 Mo. 7 - 33 for 7th January (1st Month) 1833.
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