Thursday, November 5, 2015

Dover History Printables Samples - By Era



 

Below are links to various coloring pages and other printables from Dover's Free Sample related to different periods of history.  I am not sure how long Dover will keep these up, so you may want to download these to save for later.    If you are looking for a specific historical figure, you may want to check out the list organized by person (which may have some items not found here).  


Maps and Misc.
Explorers - Includes Modern and Ancient Maps

Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Cat Paper Doll
Bastet (Egyptian Goddess)

Ancient Rome and Greece
2nd Century Roman Mosaic
Medusa

Ancient China
Chinese Cat Paper Doll

Ancient+ Medieval Japan
Amaterasu:   Japanese Sun Goddess

Ancient to Medieval Europe (also see 1400s)
A Celtic House Coloring Page (Iron Age to Medieval)
Celtic Knotwork Coloring Pages 
Celtic Knotwork Colring Pages II
How to Draw Celtic Knotwork
Illuminated Manuscripts
Vikings Coloring Pages
St. Patrick Coloring Page (5th Century)
Medieval Tapestries
Medeival Cat Paper Doll
Marco Polo - born 1254 
Fairy Tale Castle


1400's
Columbus (1492 voyage)
Columbus II
Arawak/Taino People (Central America, time of Columbus)

1500's
Leonardo da Vinci 2 3 4 (Mona Lisa - Artwork by) 1506
Raphael (Painting, The Sistine Madonna)
William Shakespeare -  born 1564
Japanese Cultural Items (Various)
- Kimonos originated in Heian Period (794-1185) and didn't fall out of fashion until the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Teapots were invented in China during the Yuan Dynasty 1271 to 1368, Origami was invented between 500-600 AD and pinwheels were used in China as early as 700AD, but the patterned Chiyogami papers pictured in that coloring page weren't invented until the Edo period (1603 to 1867)


1600's
Plymouth Colony - Founded 1620
Mayflower (Not a complete sample of paper ship, but the diagrams are good)
Squanto
Japanese Cultural Items (Various)
- Kimonos originated in Heian Period (794-1185) and didn't fall out of fashion until the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Teapots were invented in China during the Yuan Dynasty 1271 to 1368, Origami was invented between 500-600 AD and pinwheels were used in China as early as 700AD, but the patterned Chiyogami papers pictured in that coloring page weren't invented until the Edo period (1603 to 1867)

1700's
13 Colonies Crossword
George WashingtonResource 2, 3, 4, 5
Alexander Hamilton 2  3
Revolutionary War Battles
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - January 27, 1756
American History Jokes
American Artwork by Benjamin West  - 1775
Polonesian Islands and Captain James Cook - November 7, 1728
Neopolitan Baroque Angel
US Constitution 1789
US Constitution Articles
Liberty Bell

1800's
Victorian Fashion
Lewis and Clark Expedition
(1803-1805) 
War of 1812 Naval Battle
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
Jane Austen (author)
1800s Embroidery (book sample, related to Jane Austen)
Charles Dickens (author)
Jules Verne  (author)
H. G. Wells (author)
Mark Twain (author)
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Oregon Trail (1830's - 1860's)
California Gold Rush (around 1849)
California and Texas Cowboys
Wagon Train (Oregon Train and Gold Rush)
Clipper Ship, around time of Gold Rush (1859)
Zachary Taylor - (US Pres 1849 - 1850)
Andrew Jackson (US Pres 1829 - 1837)
Julia Dent Grant (Wife of Ulysses S. Grant)
Pony Express (1860s)
Civil War, 2 (1861 - 1865)
Abraham Lincoln  23, 4, 5 (US Pres 1861- 1865)
Abraham Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation - January 1, 1863
How I Spied on General Grant, By Dr. Seuss, pg2 - 1861
Guilded Age Fashion Paper Dolls (from about 1860 - 1890s)
Artwork by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 2 3 (Various from 1866 - 1896)
Republican Split of 1867, By Dr. Seuss - 1867
Artwork by Claude Monet, Resource 2, 3 ( artworks from the 1860s - 80's)
Louisa May Alcott - Published Little Women 1868
Victorian Fashion (1874 -1880)
Victorian Paper Dolls
Degas-  Artwork 1875
Cassatt, Mary  - Artwork, 1879
Rutherford B. Hayes - (US Pres 1877-1881)
Painting by Degas (1880)
Wyatt Earp O.K. Corral Shootout (1881),
Coloring Page - Artwork by Berth Morisot - 1886
Coloring Page - Artwork (Mostly from 1800) - 1888
2 Van Gogh Artworks - 1888
Van Gogh Spot the Diffference Artwork - 1889
Art Nouveau Designs 
Art Nouveau Fashions (1890 - early 1900s)
Artwork by Paul Cézanne  (Various, Mid to Late 1800s...includes self portrait)
Artworks by Paul Cezanne (including self-portrait) - Late 1800's
Paul Cézanne (Arwork by) 1885
Artwork by Thomas Eakins (1873)  - Go to Next Page for Puzzle
Artwork by Vincent Van Gogh (Starry Night -1889)
Benjamin Harrison (US Pres 1889 - 1893)
Frederic Remington - 1892
X-Ray Invented Part 2 - 1895

1900's
Art Nouveau Fashions (1890 - early 1900s)
Turn of the Century Fashion
Theodore (Teddy) Rosevelt - (President 1901-1909)
Women (re-imagined Harrison Fisher style coloring pages)
Louis C. Tiffany  (Artwork by - 1800s to 1900s)
Chanel Fashion Paperdolls (1914, 1916)
English Downtown Abby Style Paperdolls (1912 -1924)
Harry Clarke (Artwork By)
Charles Folkard (Artwork by)
Helen Jacobs (Artwork by)
Julia Morgan  (Architect who designed in California in the 1900s -40s)

1920's
Roaring 20's
Jazz Age Fashion
1920's Swimsuit (Paperdoll)
Babe Ruth
Greta Garbo
Artwork by Thomas Hart Benton - 1922
Great Gatsby (Paperdolls)     - 1925
Great Gatsby Fashion - 1925
Chanel Fashion (Paperdolls)  - 1926, 1927
Art Deco Fashion - 1920s - 1940s


1930's
King Kong - 1933
Coloring Page - Artwork by Beatice Whitney Van Ness - 1936
Greta Garbo
Nelson Mandela - Childhood
Lou Gherig
WWII Comic Book Section


1940s
Christian Dior Fashion Paperdolls - Late 40's, Early 50's
Casa Blanca - Movie - 1942
Nelson Mandela and the Start of Aparteid in South Africa - 1948
Jackie Robinson
Norman Rockwell (artwork by)
Doris Day (Actress) - April 3, 1922 or 1924
WWII



1950s
1950s Fashion

Christian Dior Fashion Paperdolls - Late 40's, Early 50's
Lucille Ball (Actress, Producer)
1950's Fashion Paperdolls
The African Queen (Movie) - 1951
Queen Elizabeth II - (Coronation 1953)
Brown vs. Board of Education/Thurgood Marshall/NAACP - 1954
Rosa Parks 2 1955, Segregation Protest
Martin Luther King
Civil Rights Movement
Artwork by Diego Rivera - 1957
Ozzie and Harriet TV Show - 1952 - 1966
Nelson Mandela (Early Activism)
Katherine Johnson - Nasa
Saturday Evening Post Covers (might be other eras too)



1960's
Segregation/Sit-In Protest - 1960
Martin Luther King  2 
Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy - First Lady  1961...
Jane Goodall - Biologist, Studied Chimpanzees
Fashion Paperdolls - 1964
Civil Rights March 2 - Jan 15, 1929 - 1965
Classic Cars 1964 - 69
1960's Swimsuit (Paperdoll)
Fashion Paperdoll - 1968
Pat Nixon (1st Lady to Richard Nixon from 1969...)
Nelson Mandela - Imprisonment


1970's
1970s Fashion Paperdoll - 1970
1970s Fashion Paperdolls - 1970, 1976
1970s Fashion Coloring Pages
American Graffiti (Movie) - 1973
Mary Tyler Moore
Rosalyn Carter (First Lady to Jimmy Carter from 1977...)
Annie Hall (Movie) - 1977

1980's
1980s Fashion
Sandra Day O'Connor
 (first women to be appointed to the Supreme Court, 1981)
Airplane! (Movie) - 1980
The Cosby Show
Julia Robert's Pretty Women Dress
Princess Diana
Princess Diana, Red Dress
Betty White 2 - January 17, 1922
Jimmy Carter (US Pres 1977 - 1981)
Ronald Reagan (US Pres 1981 - 1989)
George Bush (US Pres 1989 - 1993)
Antonin Scalia -  (Supreme Court Justice 1986 - 2016)
Pope John Paul II, 2 (born Karol Józef Wojtyla ) - Pope from 1978 - 2005


1990's
1990's Fashion
Nelson Mandela
 (End of apartheid and  Presidency), Nobel Peace Prize (1993)
Princess Diana (from 1990s)
Barbara Bush (First Lady, wife of President George Bush, Sr.)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - (Supreme Court Justice from 1993)
Misty Copeland (Dancer)
Roseanne Cherrie Barr (actress,comedian)
1990's Fashion Paper Dolls 
Global Warming and Wallace Broecker


2000's
World Trade Center (This page says "is the tallest" so it was made before the 9/11 attacks in 2001)
Tina Fey (Actress, Comedian)
Avatar (Movie) - 2009
Barak Obama, 2- President 2008 - 2016
Michelle Obama - First Lady 2008 - 2016
Kate Middleton and Prince William , 2 (2011 - 2013)
Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Princess of Wales , 3 4 5
Donald Trump -  President 2017 - 2020
Joe Biden - President 2021 -
Kamala Harris - Vice President (first woman VP), 2021 -
Pope Francis 2, 3 (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)  Became Pope 2013
College of Cardinals (responsible for picking a new Pope)
St Peters Basiica (though built in 1600's, this I believe is a modern drawing of it)
Penny Dreadful TV Series (Set in Victorian Time)
Halle Berry
Angelina Jolie
Reese Witherspoon
Simone Biles
Prince Henry and Meagan Markle 
Meagan (Markle), Duchess of Sussex
 


US Government, Symbols, ETC.
US Flag
White House
Bald Eagle

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Shared on Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf and Throwback Thursday

2 comments:

  1. That's really cool that they provide samples. I never knew that. Thank you so much for sharing this on Throwback Thursday. I've got to take some time to look into some of these.
    Oh, and your post is this week's feature. Thank you so much for your continued participation. I know I don't usually comment, but I am going to try to get better at that. I'm just so busy.

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    1. You're so welcome! Thanks so much for featuring me!

      I always appreciate comments, but I know it's hard to comment every time. :-)

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