Welcome to the Historical Print Shop Web site.

We are a group of printmakers who specialize in restoration and fine quality printing of historical images. You can order any print shown in this Web site directly from this site. The site also provides background information on each print (see examples of prints shown on the lower portion of this page). Moderately priced, our prints are precise replicas of the original historical images, custom printed for each order — not mass produced. Each print is created using heavy weight, archival paper and archival inks. Prints are shipped in protective archival materials, without mats or frames.

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Historical Print Shop's print selection includes many rare and unusual images, some as old as the mid-14th century. Take some time to browse though this Web site and you will be pleasantly surprised to discover images such as the Shroud of Turin (discovered in 1354), the World's first photograph (dated 1826), the World’s first electrical windmill-powered house (dated 1887), the World's first motion picture system (Electrical Tachyscope) (dated 1889), the World's first Ferris wheel (dated 1893), the World's first X-ray (dated 1895), the World's first airplane flight (dated 1903), early dramatic medical illustrations, industry and technology images, and much more. You will find portraits of historic writers, actors, dancers, music composers, scientists, physicians, and more. You will find portraits of important people in the history of computers, some as early as the year 1650. You will also discover portraits of important people in African-American history, the Civil War, Native Americans, the women's rights movement, law, and much more. Be sure and visit our Entertainment section, Energy and Power section and our Miscellaneous section to view some fascinating early images.

Our customers include collectors, historians, libraries, exhibitors, schools, teachers, and students, as well as artists and others who display the prints in their home, office or studio. We are also a very useful resource for interior designers looking for office artwork for specialized clients, such as doctors, attorneys, scientific companies, industrial companies, software and computer companies, and others.

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How to use this Web site:
For your convenience, this Web site has two indexes. The Subject Index organizes prints by subject, and is recommended for first-time visitors to our site. The site also provides an Alphabetical Index, for finding prints by the name of the print. You will also find an Information section that provides additional information as well as answering our most frequently asked questions (FAQ). The Information section includes detailed information on our prints, archival print storage, archival framing, matting and display of prints, shipping, and our payment method (PayPal). The Information section also includes Copyrights, Permissions and Restrictions, of special interest to those who would like to use any of our images in their project. If you have any questions please feel free to use our Contact section to send us a message.

We also provide a unique Gift Certificate — very useful if you would like to order a print for someone as a gift, but are not sure exactly which print the person would prefer. This is a popular option with our customers, especially when purchasing a gift for people in specialties such as medicine, law, education, computers, photography, and of course, when your not sure which print a serious reader would prefer from our Writers section.

Shown below are some previews of what you will find in the main Web site. To start viewing the site we suggest you browse the Subject Index.

We also publish a guide to the premier art galleries of California and the Western states. Visit this guide at www.radianteguide.com

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Balboa Park Historical Map/Poster
The California Pacific International Exposition. 1935
This print is a full color, highly accurate reproduction of the Balboa Park Historical Map/Poster, originally created for The California Pacific International Exposition of 1935 (May 29 to November 11, 1935). The large (24" x 36") map/poster provides details of the exposition, the site of today's Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

The Exposition was held at the site of the earlier 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego's large, urban Balboa Park. The Exposition had hundreds of exhibits in history, arts, science, and industry. Some exhibits were unusual, such as Zoro Garden Nudist Colony or the 1 ton (900 kg.) Mechanical Man, and some were not-so-scientific, such as the Lost Continent of Mu.

The architecture of buildings from the 1915 fair was Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture, while the few new buildings added in the 1935 fair were the more Vernacular Style, but with interesting Art Deco touches, such as murals. Exotic landscaping was planted around the buildings. The newer buildings are at Presidents Way, southwest of the original buildings at El Prado. The exposition was so popular that some buildings were rebuilt to be made more permanent. Many buildings or reconstructed versions remain in use today, and are used by several museums and theatres in Balboa Park.

The Exposition took ten months to build. It attracted 7,220,000 visitors during its 377 days of operation. Visitors brought US$ 37,700,000 to San Diego. It employed 2700 people, half of them Federal relief workers. The cost was US$ 20,000,000. Admission was 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children 2-11. Four restaurants provided meals: Cafe of the World, Palisades Cafe, Spanish Kitchens, and the Pioneer Days Restaurant. Twenty-one nations participated: Argentina, British Empire, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Honduras, Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Sweden, Uruguay, United States, Yugoslavia, and one unknown. In honor of the California Pacific International Exposition, the federal government released a commemorative silver half dollar; today referred to as the San Diego Half.

The illustrated map details include: Alcazar Gardens, Arch of the Future, Bank, Blacksmith Exhibit, Botanical Gardens, Boulder Dam Exhibit, Cafe of the World, Canadian Legion, Casa Del Rey Moro Garden, Christian Science Monitor Building, Cider Mill, Cock Fight Arena, Dance Hall, Electricity Building, Federal Building, Firestone Fountain, Foods and Beverage Building, Ford Building, Gold Gulch Exhibit, Gold Gulch Lunch, Gold Gulch Trading Post, Gold Gulch, Hollywood, House of Charm, House of Hospitality, House of Pacific Relations, Indian Village, Japanese Gardens, Latter Day Saints Building, Life Building, Midget City, Midway, Music Bowl, Natural History Exhibit, Palace of Education, Palace of Fine Arts, Palace of Photography, Palace of Science, Palisades Restaurant, Parking, Pawn Shop, Press Building, Saloon Exhibit, Shell Information Center, Spanish Village, Spreckels Organ, Stamp Mill Exhibit, State Building, Train/Trolley Station, Turtle Farm, Varied Industries Building, Water and Transportation Building, Zoo, Zoro Gardens Nudist Colony, and more.

Full color, printed on fine quality heavyweight paper. Print size: 24" x 36". Print No. 26076. $19.50

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Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Plate 4. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani
This print is from an engraving, dated 1747. Born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770) was a physician, anatomist, educator, and publisher. He was the son of the famous physician Bernhard Albinus (1653-1721). In 1721 Albinus started to teach surgery and anatomy at Leiden and soon became one of the most well-known anatomists of the eighteenth century. From 1721 until his death, Albinus occupied the chair of anatomy, surgery, and medicine at the University of Leiden. He was especially famous for his studies of bones and muscles and his attempts at improving the accuracy of anatomical illustration. Albinus was also the first to show the connection of the vascular systems of the mother and the fetus. Among his publications were Historia muscolorum hominis, Icones ossium foetus humani (Leyden, 1737), and new editions of the works of Bartholomeo Eustachio and Andreas Vesalius. Albinus is perhaps best known for his monumental Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, which was published in Leyden in 1747, largely at his own expense. The artist and engraver with whom Albinus did nearly all of his work was Jan Wandelaar. The landscape backgrounds were Wandelaar’s idea, and were intended to relieve the harshness of the figures by providing the illusion of three dimensionality. The figure, which in this plate reveals the fourth order of the muscles, stands out prominently against the background in which the female rhinoceros, first seen by Albinus in 1742, is blithely grazing. Engraving by Jan Wandelaar. Print size: 8.5" x 11". Print No. 25849. $19.50

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John Muir
This print is from a photograph by William E. Dassonville. Born in Scotland, John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-American polymath, environmentalist, naturalist, explorer, writer, inventor, engineer, and geologist. He is best remembered as one of the greatest champions of the Yosemite area's natural wonders. Muir was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in California. He thought that nature was a primary source revealing the character of God and that the Sierra Nevada was sacred ground, even calling it the “Range of Light.” Anticipating the animal rights movement, Muir argued with vigor about what he considered the questionable ethics of hunting (calling it the “murder business”). He also anticipated modern conservation biologists by recognizing that everything in nature is connected and that the preservation of large tracts of unfragmented wilderness was the only real way to ensure a healthy ecosystem. William E. Dassonville was a superb photographer and a man of great influence in Northern California's artistic community during the early twentieth century. He is known for his photographs of the California landscape, especially of San Francisco's waterfront and bay and Yosemite. He was also an innovative craftsman and self-taught chemist, and a perfectionist who developed and marketed his own line of photographic printing paper, “Charcoal Black.” Photograph by William E. Dassonville. Print size: 8.5" x 11". Print No. 25669. $19.50

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Blaise Pascal
Shown at the Age of 19 with his Recently Invented Pascaline Digital Calculator
This print is from an engraving of Pascal. Born in Clermont-Ferrand, in the Auvergne region of France, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. Pascal showed great precocity, especially in mathematics and science. Before he was 16 he wrote a paper on conic sections which won the respect of the mathematicians of Paris; at 19 he invented a calculating machine called the Pascaline, to calculate with 8 figures and carrying of 10's, 100's, and 1000's, etc. Resembling a desk calculator, it used a train of number wheels whose positions could be seen through windows. A true digital device, it computed by a process of integer counting, employing a mechanical gear system to add and subtract numbers with up to 8 columns of digits, and carrying of 10's, 100's, and 1000's, etc. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method. He was a mathematician of the first order. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he left mathematics and physics and devoted himself to reflection and writing about philosophy and theology. However, he had suffered from ill-health throughout his life and his new interests were ended by his early death two months after his 39th birthday. Pascal's development of probability theory was his most influential contribution to mathematics. Originally applied to gambling, today it is extremely important in economics, especially in actuarial science. In honor of his scientific contributions, the name Pascal has been given to the SI unit of pressure, to a programming language and to Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics). Pascal's triangle and Pascal's wager still bear his name. Print size: 8.5" x 11". Print No. 25948. $19.50

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Virginia Woolf
(Adeline Virginia Stephen)
This print is from a photograph of Woolf. Born in London, England, Virginia Woolf (birth name: Adeline Virginia Stephen) (1882–1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century. Virginia Woolf never attended a university. She educated herself by reading her father’s large, unexpurgated library, and by studying languages. Lessons in Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian, and Russian occupied her intermittently for most of her life. Woolf was a successful innovator in the form of the novel and was one of the most distinguished critics of her time. Her novels often ignored traditional plots to follow the inner lives and musings of her characters. Between the World Wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the intellectual circle known as the Bloomsbury Group, which included Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Duncan Grant, and Leonard Woolf. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and her essay A Room of One's Own. Woolf suffered from depression and fits of mental illness for much of her life, and on March 28, 1941, at the age of 59, Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her home in Rodmell, near Sussex, England. Print size: 8.5" x 11". Print No. 25770. $19.50

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Inside the Broadway Cable Car System
4 Inch Circumference Steel Ropes Powered by 2,000 hp Steam Engines
This print is from an engraving, dated 1893. Shown is a cut-away of the Broadway cable car system. 40 feet below the surface were giant inclined sheaves, powered by 2,000 hp steam engines for moving the cables. The road gauge was 4 ft., 8.5". The length of double track road was 12.3 miles. Maximum grade was 51 feet. Number of engines was 4 with 4 additional spares. Weight of one car was 10,000 lbs. Intervals of departure were 2–4 minutes. Round trips per day were 910. Number of cars used were 80. System hours of use per day was 20.8. Number of wire ropes used was 6. Length of rope used was 160,000 feet. Speed of wire rope was 750 feet per minute. Circumference of the steel wire rope was 4 inches. The first cable car was invented in 1858 by Eleazer Gardiner, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, obtaining patent number 19,736 for his “improvements in tracks for city railways.” Shortly after Gardner’s invention, the cable car system of Andrew Hallidie was put into service on Clay Street in San Francisco, California in 1873. Cable car system quickly spread to cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. All of the original installations were based on the idea of placing an endless wire rope in a tube (having a narrow slot) beneath the surface of the street. A gripping attachment, connected to the car above, could at any time engage, or disengage to obtain motion. Later improvements included a duplicate cable, running parallel and separately powered as a backup in case of a power failure. Print size: 8.5" x 11". Print No. 25984. $19.50

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