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The Storming of Frankfurt's Main Police Station (April 3, 1833)
On April 3, 1833, armed students (most of whom belonged to fraternities, Burschenschaften) stormed Frankfurt's main police station and attempted to free political prisoners. In doing so, they....
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Processing Mercury and Silver (c. 1845)
Woodcut showing the processing of ore from mercury and the purification of silver, c. 1845. As the image suggests, production at that time frequently took place in smaller facilities as opposed to....
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Lübeck (19th Century)
Since the heyday of the Hanseatic League in the late fourteenth century, the city of Lübeck on the Baltic Sea had lost substantial amounts of trade to Bremerhaven, Hamburg, and Stettin (present-day....
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Bettina von Arnim (c. 1809)
In 1806, the young Bettina von Arnim (née Brentano) (1785-1859) became acquainted with the mother of Johann....
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The Congress of Vienna under the Leadership of Clemens Prince von Metternich (1814-15)
From autumn of 1814 until June of 1815, representatives of the European powers participated in the Congress of Vienna under the presidency of Austrian chancellor Clemens....
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In a Berlin Living Room c. 1815 (1816)
In early nineteenth-century Germany, the tradition of classical antiquity and humanistic learning had a powerful hold on the collective imagination of the educated bourgeoisie. During the Enlightenment,....
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The "Princess Charlott", the first Steamboat on the Spree River (1816)
Following James Watt’s invention of the steam engine in the mid-eighteenth century, steam power was first put to use in maritime and river vessels in the early 1800s, roughly the same time it was....
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View of the Römerberg with Church of Saint Nikolai in Frankfurt (1822)
Beginning in the 13th century, the city of Frankfurt played host to numerous trade and book fairs, becoming an important center for trade and finance in the process. This view of Frankfurt shows....
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The Children's Room (1823)
This interior scene shows women fulfilling one of the duties assigned to them by early nineteenth-century bourgeois society – that of raising the children. Etching by Johann Michael Voltz, 1823.
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The School (1823)
Education for boys at an urban school during the Biedermeier era. Although the eighteenth century had already seen the introduction of compulsory education in the German-speaking territories, it....
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