![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://www.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
Blueprints to the Eiffel Tower
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Portraits by F. Holland Day, 1895-1911
Construction of the Statue of Liberty
“A Room to let in Old Aldgate”
Rescue Masks, 1800s
'Oldest wedding cake', 1898
'First roller-skate', 1869
1700 Japanese babies, 1893
Evolution of the London Underground Map, 1889-2002
Killing the American Buffalo
Map of the Last U.S. Slave Census 1860
Le Petit Journal, 1891-1893
Kodak No.1 Circular Snapshots, c.1890
The lost village of Balmalonesca, 1898-1905
Tetrahedral Kites by Alexander Graham Bell, 1898-1912
Early Photographs of Women's Hair
Photographs of men on horseback during the Crimean War, 1855, by Roger Fenton 
Exotic Dancers, 1890s
"If London Were Like Venice", 1899
Ironclads, 1859-1899
The Last Queen of Hawaii, 1891-1893
Snapshots of Perthshire Victorians, 1885-1910
C’est tres magnifique n’est pas?
Where did these come from? Is there any way to get higher resolution versions? I’d LOVE to print this out and frame it!
Super high resolution versions, and more of them, here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eiffel_tower_plans
http://www.le-modele-antisocial-francais.com/le-modele-antisocial-francais.php