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Preview Origins Image Library
British Origins and Irish Origins Libraries showcase rare vintage photos, maps and other publications, and are available with subscription access.
Wonderful London PREVIEW
A very well-named publication, with 114 chapters and over a thousand photographs covering all aspects of London and London life.
Dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries the photographs provide fascinating detail concerning the London of a century ago.
Universal Pocket Companion 1741 PREVIEW
A lovely pocket reference book, in the old type style, including a description of England, places in the world, description of London & Westminster, companies in London, prices of the works of bricklayers, masons & carpenters, Archbishops & Bishops, places at Court with salaries.... and so on.
Ireland in Pictures PREVIEW
A superb collection of 400 photographs of Irish places, buildings, and people, with a historical and descriptive narrative for each photograph. Published in 1898 to commemorate the Rebellion of 1798 and motivated by Finerty's desire to make Ireland better known to Americans "of all races, creeds and conditions".
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FREE Children's Employment Commission Part II 1842
Find out how your forebears lived in their own words. Interviewees, nearly always named and indexed, give extraordinary detail of working conditions, housing, leisure, earnings, education, occupations and more...
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