Images Dated 8th December 2011

Mayflower passengers landing at Plymouth Rock, 1620

John Alden and Mary Chilton landing at Plymouth from the Mayflower, December 1620.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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John Calvin and the four syndics at Geneva

John Calvin and the four syndics founding the seminary which became the College of Geneva, 1559.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Sinking of the Titanic

Titanic's stern in the air as the ship sinks in the North Atlantic, 1912.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration from eyewitness reports

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