The Age of Industry and Empire (c. 1830–1900)

A visual journey through a transformative era — from steam engines and factories to colonial expansion and shifting societies. Explore objects, images, and art from a century that reshaped the modern world.

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1800 Some men dispensing justice in old Wichita, Kansas in late 1800s

1829 Stephenson's Rocket - one of the first steam locomotives in the world. 1829

1844 Jerusalem

1848 Women rehearsing for the Equal Rights Pageant produced by the National Woman's Party at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. Sept. 23, 1848

1850 Oct 4, 1850 12 members of the circle of Eynard-Lullin posing for daguerreotype in Switzerland

1855 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Col. J.H. Higgins (1855-1865)

1855 Valley of the Shadow of Death photograph by Roger Fenton, taken on April 23, 1855

1857 Dresden Saxony

1860 Camp of the 44th N.Y. Inf. near Alexandria, Va, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Camp scene. Showing winter huts and corduroy roads, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Colors of 23rd Infantry, N.Y, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Company of Infantry on parade. Part of 6th Maine Infantry after battle of Fredericksburg ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Confederate dead behind stone wall. The 6th. Maine Inf. penetrated the Confederate lines at this point. Fredericksburg, Va., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Confederate prisoners waiting for transportation, Belle Plain, Va., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Railroad, construction corps at work, Va., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Battery in action at Fredericksburg, Va, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, View in Wilderness, Va, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Mathew Brady, Treasury Dept. (1860-1880)

1860 Mathew Brady, Washington Monument as it stood for 25 years (1860)

1860 Mclean House, Appomattox Court House, Va., where the capitulation was signed by Lee and Grant, (ca. 1860-ca. 1865)

1860 Pontoon across Rappahannock River, Va. (alson cavalry column.), ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Union breastworks. Interior view of breastworks on Little Round Top, Gettysburg., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Wilderness, near Chancellorsville, Va, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860 Wounded soldiers in hospital, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1860s Earliest known photograph of baseball being played in California

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, 1st U.S. colored infantry (ca 1861-1865)

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Brady's incidents of the war. (Fort Richardson Va.) Camp 1st. Conn Artilery [sic], Col. R.O. Tyler (1861)

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Hancock, Gen. Winfield S. and staff (ca. 1861-1865)

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Life in Camp Cameron (1861)

>>5046093 (OP)
A young spinner in Yazoo City Overseer supervising a girl (about 13 years old, yum) operating a bobbin-winding machine in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi

>>5047290
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wlwtpH1ldM

>>5046097
Whats witth the Satan horns and the Tranny?

>>5047465
meds, schizo

>>5047360
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>>5047363
This are amazing!

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Major-General Joseph Hooker on horse (ca. 1861-1865)

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Preparing the Mess, (1861-1865)

1861 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Sutter's [i.e. Sutler's] Row, Chattanooga, Tennessee (1861-1865)

1862 Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent, September-October

>>5047739
Looks a lot like one of the Jack the Ripper murder sights.

the final known victim of Jack the Ripper.

>>5048228
There's a reason for that: all the photos are from London in the 1880s

_Look_out__(Transport_Steamer)_on_Tennessee_River_-_NARA_-_5289791_restored-Lookout, transport steamer on the Tennessee River, c. 1860–1865

Trying to keep up a habit of adding to this once a day

London-TowerBridge-1900-Closed-A pleasure steamer passing under Tower Bridge in 1900

1862 Generals with an African American boy at Cumberland Landing, Virginia. 1862 May 14.

1862 Genl Fitz John Porter and staff, at headquarters, Westover, Westover Landing, Va., July 16, 1862

1862 Gen'l Sykes and staff, near Richmond, June, 1862

1862 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, 1st Connecticut artillery park encamped at the former quarters of the Louisiana Tigers., May 1862

>>5046118
The way this is worded, sounds like it's from the South's point of view.

Here in the Union, we talk about the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

1862 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Inflation of the balloon Intrepid to reconnoiter the Battle of Fair Oaks (June 1,1862)

1863 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Three Johnnie Reb Prisoners, captured at Gettysburg (1863)

1863 Mathew Brady, Indian delegation in the White House Conservatory during the Civil War (1863)

1864 A group of the U.S. Engineer Battalion, Petersburg, Virginia

>>5046108
>Fredericksburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1KCuBo-3WY

>>5046118
Capt. Custard was given the table that the surrender was signed on. He was credited with being the deciding factor of this battle.

1864 Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate Works, Summer

1864 General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort No. 7, ca. November, 1864

remnants

>>5046097
>Women rehearsing for the Equal Rights Pageant

The beginning of the end

1864 Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. After the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

1865 Charleston, S.C. Parapet of Fort Sumter, with stacks of ammunition. 1865

1865 Crucifixion of the Servant Sokichi in 1865, above the decapitated heads of other criminals. Yokohama, Japan

1865 Lincoln Assassination conspirators being hanged. July 7, 1865

>>5046093 (OP)
>>5046093 (OP)
>>5046093 (OP)

Sorry for the off-topic post, but what's a good image downloader that can preserve original filenames?

I have a few, but they download them with generic numbers.

>>5067112
You will need a python script for that.
I do it manually like this
because I only save the good ones in each thread so it's not that much work

>>5067119

>>5067120
>>5067119
k thx

>>5067112
Try JDownloader. No complicated "python script" necessary.

>>5067359
>No complicated
Python is not complicated at all
You can even ask chatgpt for a script like that.

>>5067660
>not complicated at all
It is definitely, compared to JDownloader!
We don't need to discuss that.

Python needs to be set up first. (let alone get your hands on those scripts)

JD doesn't.
Download JD, install JD, done.
It monitors the clipboard. You can paste the channel URL there.
JD reads all the image files, which you can then download at once with a single click.

https://jdownloader.org/download/index?s=lng_en

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

1865 Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Scene showing deserted camp and wounded soldier (Zouave), (ca. 1865)

>>5069226
Pictures like this show how amazing photosensitive materials and lenses already were back then regarding image sharpness.
Just the exposure times were total shitass, which is why the immobile scenery is ultra detailed, the sitting immobile soldier too, and the standing soldier whose coat is probably moving a bit the least.

1865 Sioux-and-Arrapahoe-Indian-Delegations

1865 Washington, D.C. Units of 20th Army Corps, Army of Georgia, passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury (1865 May 24)

1866 Alexandre Dumas & Adah Isaacs Menken

>>5070277
That's one plump guy for 1886.

1866 Ruins of an Atlanta roundhouse

>>5072096
Was this the result of the civil war?

>>5072782
yes

1869 A street in Corinne, Utah

>>5075912
crazy that this was all hand carved

>>5046815
Those poor kids. I'm glad we have laws against child labor

1871 One of the many barricades of the Paris Commune, March-May, Paris France

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>>5078297
Why are some of the figures clear and others are blurs? Was it a multiple exposure?

1873 Ute warrior and his dog - Wasatch Mountains, Utah

1874 Street scene in Peking

1874 Studio portrait of a Mrs Brealey by Elliot & Fry.jpg

1875 Housekeeper crew, 1875 (like merry maids, etc. now)

1875 Playing Backgammon in a Coffeehouse, Istanbul, 1875

1877 A Cough drop salesman on the streets of London

>>5078851
>The figures are blurred due to the camera's lengthy exposure time, an effect commonly seen in early photographs.

>>5047465
S.s.d.d.

1877 London street vendor selling fancyware costume imitation jewelry

1878 Istanbul in 1878 Photographed by Russians 6

>>5078851
>>5083345
I guess the ones that are clear are people who paused for a bit while the exposure was happening

>>5046093 (OP)
1879 photo of Pensher Colliery (Whitefield Pit) (1790s-1880s), Penshaw, County Durham.

>>5083134
Nice shoes.

1878 Studio portrait of a Mrs Watney in formal riding dress

>>5086166
wait seriously what is going on there?

1878 The city of Utrecht (Netherlands), seen from the city's cathedral tower

1879 Bactrian camel (Beijing, China - 1879)