I own a business which sells images of the past. Many of them are decorative or interesting in their own right, but to me one of the most i...

In 1569, the great Flemish cartographer, Gerard Mercator, issued this important world map—-the first to use the so-called Mercator projectio...

While Lucien Bonaparte was finishing Alexander Wilson’s American Ornithology , and John James Audubon was beginning his great projects, John...

With the growing emigration of white Americans from “the States” to the Rocky Mountains and beyond in the 1860s, the Plains Indians found t...

Thomas Nast is among the most famous American illustrators of all time, often called the “father of American political cartooning.” Nast w...

Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is often called the ‘father of modern cartography,’ particularly because in 1570, he issued the first edition ...

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of the foremost American artists of the middle of the nineteenth century and we are fortunate that many of...