ID: What are we looking at?

Item #1 is a medal which has something to do with the German city of Hamburg; have not found it in the long list of single images yet but at the bottom there is Hamburg's CoA. And #3 is about an industrial exhibition ("Erinnerung an die Ausstellung deutscher Gewerbserzeugnisse zu Berlin 1844"). Germania is sitting next to a rock with the inscription "Seid einig", ie. unite, or be united.

Christian

 

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As for #1, I cannot decipher the entire text, but I think the beginning is "Unter Gottes Segen ... Hamburgs Wohlfahrt". The two dates are easier to read, and indicate what the medal is about: 1558 - that is when the Hamburg Stock Exchange was established. 1841 - in that year it moved to a new location. The sitting woman could be Hammonia, an allegorical figure representing Hamburg. In those years such figures, like the Germania on the other medal, were quite popular.
http://monety.pl/download/file.php?id=517&mode=view
http://monety.pl/download/file.php?id=518&mode=view

And #3, the text on the other side is "Vorwärts (VORWAERTS) mit deutschem Fleisse und deutscher Kraft", ie. Forward with German diligence and German power. At the bottom of that side there seems to be a signature.
http://monety.pl/download/file.php?id=515&mode=view
http://monety.pl/download/file.php?id=516&mode=view

Christian