XEE4164457: Game of chance (lottery): “The witch birds” in Naples, Italy, 1863. On a stage, three birds are each locked in a cage. A woman throws papers in the air and opens one of the cages so that the bird can bring one. If one of the spectators guesses the number on the selected paper, they earn money. On the left, a barly organ player. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°325 of July 4, 1863., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4164462: A review of the troops passed by the Italian king Victor Emmanuel II (Victor-Emmanuel) (Vittorio Emanuele) in Turin on June 7, 1863, for the celebrations of the Statute which celebrate the constitution granted in 1848 by Charles Albert to the Piemontese. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°323 of 20 June 1863., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4164385: Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), American painter and physicist, speaking, on his return to the United States, with the captain of the ship, about his idea of an electric telegraph. in “Popular history of science, inventions and discoveries from the first centuries to the present day” by Bitard Adolphe 1880., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images