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Passmore Williamson (1822-1895), abolitionist, imprisoned for assisting a runaway slave, Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia, 1855. Chester County Historical Society.

Henry Box Brown, the former slave who had himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery on 29 March 1849. Image by Charles Stearns, frontspiece to the 1849 edition of Narrative of the Life of Henry...

Title page of the first edition of The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe by George Peele, printed by Adam Islip, London, 1599.

Title pages of two editions of The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay by Robert Greene (c. 1558-1592), reproduced in The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, 1905.

This map illustrates the Roman Empire under the rule of Septimius Severus from 193 to 211 CE, a period marked by military expansion, internal consolidation, and the founding of the Severan dynasty. Rising to power during the Year of the Five...

Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an ‘open-air library’, contains hundreds of inscriptions engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite kingdoms, Saudi...

Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an ‘open-air library’, contains hundreds of inscriptions and pictograms engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite...

Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an 'open-air library', contains hundreds of inscriptions engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite kingdoms, in Saudi...

The interior of a tomb at Hegra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site at modern AlUla, Saudi Arabia, ancient Kingdom of Nabatea, 1st century BCE to the early 2nd century CE.

The spectacular landscape of Hegra, a UNESCO World Heritage site at AlUla, Saudi Arabia.