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bits and pieces of antique French handwriting / calligraphy, letters, documents and ephemera from the 19th Century, isolated over a white  background, cut out retro journaling or collage design elements
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Vinatge handwriting on old blue paper background, Petit journal pour rire, french 19th Century
Fountain pen on an antique handwritten letter. Vintage nib pen and handwritten english cursive style font copperplate, spencerian. Old history background. Retro style.
blank vintage postcard sent from Cherbourg, France  in 1901, a very good historic background of postal service, can be used for any usage for any historic situation.
Old vintage manuscript writing in cursive
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
Undefined text with french words. Handwritten letter. Handwriting. Calligraphy. Manuscript. Script. Font. Abstract texture background
old 18th letter
mysterious hand-written French letter, black on white and on a paper background, romantic mail / postage, handwriting, Paris or calligraphy themed background or texture, portrait format, fictive document, my own handwriting
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
John Hancocks famous signature on the Declaration of Independence
blank vintage postcard sent from Paris, France  in 1905, a very good historic background of postal service, can be used for any usage for any historic situation.
Ancient manuscript in codex, texture
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
Old letter with handwritten text. Grunge vintage texture background
High angle extreme closeup photo of 300 year old handmade paper with cursive handwriting in French in faded brown ink noting details of farm transactions in 1705, from Burgundy, France.
An old, historical stamp duty stamp
Old vintage handwriting, original, 1825, name, William Wigson, 19th Century ephemera
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Vintage blank French postcard printed in early 1900s, a very good background for any usage of the historic postcard communications.
Sucre, Bolivia, April 12 2023 : close-up of the Bolivian Declaration of Independence in the Casa de la Libertad. Original manuscript.
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Old handwritten letter
Facial Features Pattern Design on Banknote
empty antique french postcard  from paris. vintage sentimental retro style paper background
Vintage Antique postcard, British half panny postage Stamp, 1900s, Old-fashioned, Nostalgia, British half panny postage Stamp, priory terrace cheltenham
100 year old paper, handwritten augustus
a vintage blank postcard sent from Madagascar to Paris of France in 1900s,  ready for any usage of  historic events background related to mail delievery description.
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