Latvian and Baltic history

19th century

• Foreign Corn PortsForeign Corn Ports—Riga, The Illustrated London News, May 15, 1847—News article with engraved illustrations.
• Town of RigaThe Town of Riga, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, February, 1872—An informative, if brief, account of Rīga at its zenith as the second largest port of the Russian empire, and of the history, geography, fauna, and inhabitants of Livonia.
• Baltic RussiaBaltic Russia, Henry Lansdell, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York, July 1890—Lansdell's richly illustrated travelogue, one of a number which appeared in Harper's from 1887 to 1891, offers a Baltic Russian potpourri of information, from educational expenditures by ethnicity to observations on segregated nude bathing.
• "Riga" ca. 1897"RIGA", The National Encyclopedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, William Mackenzie, London, ca. 1897—Encyclopedia entry for Rīga, including an engraved illustration of a harbor scene.