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Lightbox > 1909
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1909, Pere Rouquette's Oak Tree, Black and white gelatin glass negative, Source requested, LL/6569
Atelier d'Ora, 1909, "Open air study" - Elsa Kasimir in Dürnstein on the Danube ("Freilicht-Studie" - Elsa Kasimir in Dürnstein a. d. Donau), Mmehrfarbiger Gummidruck - 14 colours, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe / MKG, LL/126359
A. Verbeck-Hendrickx (66 Rue du Pelican, Anvers), 1909, Portrait of Yuli Abramovich Joffe with a diamond, Cabinet card, detail, Private collection of Sergey Maximishin, LL/111838
Arthur E. Smith, 1909, Mr. Smith focussing the object in the microscope / Mr. Smith focussing on the camera screen, Book illustration, Internet Archive, LL/65680
Arthur E. Smith, 1909, Frontispiece and title page for Richard Kerr & Arthur E. Smith, 1909, Nature Through Microscope and Camera, (London: Religious Tract Society), Frontispiece and title page, Internet Archive, LL/65707
F. Joachim & Co (trading company), 1909, Catalogue page for F. Joachim & Co., St. Petersburg, showing dark boxes, Catalogue page, Private collection of Sergey Maximishin, LL/104384
Norman Lockyer (one of the co-discoverers of helium, 1836-1920), 1909, [Trafalgar Square in London taken by scientist Sir Norman Lockyer from a Helium balloon], Photograph, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/103008
Oscar Tellgmann (1857-1936), 1909, Imperial maneuvers 1909 - The Emperor and Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Kaisermanöver 1909 - Der Kaiser und Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand), Cabinet card, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe / MKG, LL/126371
Philip Brocklehurst, 1909, Shackleton on Nimrod, back from his attempt to reach the S. Pole, [British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 (led by Shackleton on the "Nimrod")], Snapshot, L'Atelier d'Artistes, LL/41314
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, [Eight snapshots taken in Iceland], [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Album pages, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63032
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, [Four snapshots taken in Iceland], [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Album page, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63035
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, [Four snapshots taken in Iceland], [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Album page, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63034
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, [Four snapshots taken in Iceland], [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Album page, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63033
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, [Four snapshots taken in Iceland], [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Album page, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63031
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, [Sten Bergman (1895-1975) standing on a horse, Iceland], [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Gelatin silver print, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63030
Unidentified expedition photographer, 1909, Album cover, [Island - Photographs taken during a Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland], Album, Stockholms Auktionsverk, LL/63029
Unidentified photographer, 1909, Bowker's Fertilizer ad of men in corn field, Montgomery County, Indiana, Real photo postcard, The Indiana Album Inc., LL/119547
Unidentified photographer, 1909, A Canadian Pacific Railway track mounted steam shovel working on a track extension., Photograph, Private collection of John Quin, LL/116091
Unidentified photographer, 1909, Bowker's Fertilizer ad of men in corn field, Montgomery County, Indiana, Real photo postcard, back, The Indiana Album Inc., LL/119548
Unidentified photographer, 1909, The Curtiss No. 2 more commonly known as the Reims Racer at an air race in France in 1909, Glass stereoview, half, detail, Private collection of John Quin, LL/124731
Unidentified photographer, 1909, A Voisin Biplane flying in front of spectators in France in 1909, Glass stereoview, half, detail, Private collection of John Quin, LL/124732
Unidentified photographer (German), 1909, Double exposure trick photo showing a man playing cards with himself, Real photo postcard, Private collection of Christopher Steiner, LL/100845
Vickers-Maxim (Company), 1909, In the working chamber of a 'King Edward VII' type battleship: the shells are here transferred on to another hoist called the loading trayà, Photographic print, Cambridge University Library, Royal Commonwealth Society, LL/40139
Underwood & Underwood, 1909, Book cover for Underwood & Underwood, 1909, School-children. The world over with stories and descriptions by Lucy Dunton, (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company publishers), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/53659