My family used to own a restaurant back in the early 1900s. This was handed down to me, and I wonder if it was used when they ...

This 18th century fire alarm that you'd need to hit with a hammer to alert the village of a fire: 6.This 18th century machine ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced Wednesday by nationally renowned civil rights ...

The 19th-century portraits of Angelo Giulio "Diego" Bernacchi ... recently visited Tasmania for the first time to trace her family's history and visit the heritage-listed home on Maria Island ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

Lundgren noted a striking similarity between the abstract geometric shapes in af Klint's work and scientific diagrams in 19th century physicist ... focused on drawing, portraits, botanical ...

At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is offering a rare double-sided portrait by 18th-century artist ... “The sitter or family was not pleased by Phillips’s ...

This portrait prefaces Van Gogh’s early masterpiece The Potato Eaters (1885), which depicts the De Groot family around their dinner table. Purchased from the private collection of the London ...

However, there have long been attacks on Gladstone over his family's involvement in slavery ... terms totalling 12 years in the late 19th Century, was also responsible for major progressive ...

The Caledonian Mercury of January 1842 noted that “Mr Thomas Cleghorn, formerly of the Princes Street Nursery Gardens, who last year emigrated to New Zealand, with all his family, has been ...

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed ... U.S., and tells a fascinating story of a free Black family before emancipation. It’s also a rare work from ...