Contemporary Period Collection

Abdulmecit I (1823-1861). Ottoman Sultan (1839-1861)

Fire in the city of Providence in 1886. The Exchange building on the right. United States

Abd al-Qadir B Muhyi al-Din al-Hasani (Abdelkader) (1808 - 1883). Algerian Leader
Abd al-Qadir B Muhyi al-Din al-Hasani (Abdelkader) (1808-1883). Algerian Leader. Colored engraving

Masonic temple opened in 1867, at the intersection of Tremont Street and Boyleston Street. Outside view. Boston. 1895. Massachusetts. United States

Building Maine Savings Bank on Middle Street. Portland. 1876. Maine. United States

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (Wittenberg, 1804, Gottingen, 1891). German physicist. Nineteenth-century engraving

Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli, Marquis d (Turin, 1798-Turin, 1866). Italian politician and writer
Massimo Taparelli Azeglio, Marquis d (Turin, 1798-Turin, 1866). Italian politician and writer. Engraving

PASTEUR, Louis (Dle, 1822-Villeneuve-l Etang, 1895) French chemist and bacteriologist
Louis Pasteur (Dole, 1822-Villeneuve-l Etang, 1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Discoverer of rabies vaccine. Outside the Paris laboratory with the sick together

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Vaccination of sheep against anthrax
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). French chemist and bacteriologist. Vaccination of sheep against anthrax. Agerville, France, 1884. Engraving

ORLEANS, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Montpensier and Orleans (1747-1793), called
Louis Philippe Joseph Orleans, Duke of Montpensier and Orleans (1747-1793), called Philippe Egalite since 1792. French Prince, grandson of the Regent Philippe d Orleans. 19th-century engraving

BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules (1805-1895). French politician, philosopher and orientalist

AZCARATE MENENDEZ, Gumersindo (1840-1917). Spanish politician and sociologist. Engraving

Carol I (Sigmaringen, 1839-Castle Pelesch, 1914). Prince (1866-81) and king of Romania (1881-1914). Engraving by A. Carretero

Nordenskjold (Nordenskiold), Adolf Erik, Baron (1832-1901). Polar explorer and naturalist Swedish Finnish origin. Engraving

Alexander of Battenberg (1857-1893). Prince of Bulgaria (1879-1886)

Abreu e Sousa, Joao Crisostomo of (1811-1895). Portuguese political and military. Engraving by A. Carretero

WATT, James (Greenok 1736-Heathfield, 1819). Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer. Nineteenth-century engraving

Bosch Gimpera, Pere (Barcelona, 1891-Mexico, 1974). Archaeologist. Bosch Gimpera with M. Domingo (1884-1939), Minister of Public Instruction and the Arts during the Republican Government

SECOND WORLD WAR. Battle of Stalingrad fought between Russian and German troops. 1942. USSR

WORLD WAR II (1939-1945). Battle of Stalingrad. Fought between the German and Soviet army (August 1942 - February 1943). Artillery into the city of Stalingrad. USSR

WORLD WAR II. German Army Air Defense. Female member

Curie, Irene (Paris, 1897-1956). French physicist. She conducted research on nuclear physics and earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, shared with her husband

French Revolutionary Wars. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte during the Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801. Engraving of Universal History, 1869

Second Italian war of Independence. Napoleon III in the Battle of Solferino. (June 24, 1859). Engraving 1881

PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741- 1811). German naturalist. Engraving

Semmelweiss, Ignac F├╝l├Âp (Buddha, 1818-Vienna, 1865). Hungarian doctor. He discovered that puerperal fever is caused by infectious agents

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997). Albanian nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950

ARMSTRONG, William George, Baron of Cragside (1810-1900). British industrialist and inventor

Allendesalazar y Munoz, Manuel (Guernica, 1856-Madrid, 1923). Spanish politician. Drawing

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