- Properly marked black and white cat
Properly marked black and white cat - Dog Sleeping
Dog Sleeping - Properly Marked Siamese
Properly Marked Siamese - Landing at Jamestown
- 'The old Lady' - Silver Tabby
'The old Lady' - Silver Tabby - Example of a finely-marked Tortoiseshell Cat
Example of a finely-marked Tortoiseshell Cat - 'Fez' - Persian
'Fez' - Persian - Example of a properly-marked Brown Tabby
Example of a properly-marked Brown Tabby - Unusual Long Haired Cat
Unusual Long Haired Cat - Tortoiseshell-and-white Cat, finely marked
Tortoiseshell-and-white Cat, finely marked - Labouring Colon (Twelfth Century)
Labouring Colons (Twelfth Century), after a Miniature in a Manuscript of the Ste. Chapelle, of the National Library of Paris. At the onset, the slave only possessed his life, and this was but imperfectly guaranteed to him by the laws of charity; laws which, however, year by year became of greater power. He afterwards became colon, or labourer, working for himself under certain conditions and tenures, paying fines, or services, which, it is true, were often very extortionate. - English Wild Cat
English Wild Cat - Example of Tortoiseshell Cat, very dark variety
Example of Tortoiseshell Cat, very dark variety - Costume of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries
Costumes of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe. - King of the Franks
The King of the Franks, in the midst of the Military Chiefs who formed his Treuste, or armed Court, dictates the Salic Law (Code of the Barbaric Laws). The tariff of indemnities or compensations to be paid for each crime formed the basis of the code of laws amongst the principal tribes of Franks, a code essentially barbarian, and called the Salic law, or law of the Salians. Such, however, was the spirit of inequality among the German races, that it became an established principle for justice to be subservient to the `rank` of individuals. The more powerful a man was, the more he was protected by the law; the lower his `rank`, the less the law protected him. - Example of a finely-marked Spotted Tabby He-Cat
Example of a finely-marked Spotted Tabby He-Cat - Game of Ball
Game of Ball - Group of Kittens at the Crystal Palace Cat Show
Group of Kittens at the Crystal Palace Cat Show - Simple Frame
- Cat at Show
Cat at Show - White Angora
White Angora - White cat - prize winner in 1879
White cat - prize winner in 1879 - Brown Tabby with the black bars far too wide
Brown Tabby with the black bars far too wide - Twine phones
The string telephones which for several years have been flooding the boulevards and the streets of the different cities of Europe, and whose invention dates back, as we have seen, to the year 1667, are very interesting apparatuses by them themselves, and we are astonished that they did not appear rather in the physics cabinets. They consist of cylindrical-conical tubes of metal or cardboard, one end of which is closed by a stretched membrane of parchment, in the center of which is fixed by a knot the string or cord intended to bring them together. When two tubes of this kind are thus joined together and that the wire is tight, as shown, it suffices for a person to apply one of these tubes against the ear and for another person to speak very close to the opening of the other tube, so that all the words spoken by the latter are immediately transmitted to the other, and one can even converse in this manner in an almost low voice. - White Persian 'Miss Whitey'
White Persian 'Miss Whitey' - Archangel Blue Cat
Archangel Blue Cat - trebuchet
The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages. Essentially, it was a seesaw. Weights on the short arm swung the long throwing arm. - White Cat, winner of many prizes
White Cat, winner of many prizes - breechloader
Under the Swedish warrior Gustavus Adolphus, artillery began to take its true position on the field of battle. Gustavus saw the need for mobility, so he divorced anything heavier than a 12-pounder from his field artillery. His famous "leatheren" gun was so light that it could be drawn and served by two men. This gun was a wrought-copper tube screwed into a chambered brass breech, bound with four iron hoops. The copper tube was covered with layers of mastic, wrapped firmly with cords, then coated with an equalizing layer of plaster. A cover of leather, boiled and varnished, completed the gun. Naturally, the piece could withstand only a small charge, but it was highly mobile. - Dark Blue, Small-banded Tabby
Dark Blue, Small-banded Tabby - White Persian 'Tim'
White Persian 'Tim' - Curiously marked white and black cat
Curiously marked white and black cat - a white Persian - Muff
a white Persian - Muff - Black Persian 'Minnie'
Black Persian 'Minnie' - Greek Figure
From Hope's "Costume of the Ancients." With the Greeks the tunic was the principal article of attire. It was worn next to the skin, and was of a light tissue. In the earlier time it was composed of wool, in later periods of flax, and in the latest periods it was either of flax mixed with silk or of pure silk. The illustration given will serve to show its construction. It was a simple square bag, open at the two ends, made sufficiently wide to admit of the folds being ample, and sufficiently long to allow of its being gathered up about the waist and breasts. It was kept in its place by various means, either by a simple girdle round the waist or by cords drawn crosswise between the breasts, over the shoulders, looped at the back, and again drawn round the waist, or by an arrangement of cords or ribbons drawn over each shoulder and attached to the girdle. - Greek Figure
- White Persian - 'Lambkin 2'
White Persian - 'Lambkin 2' - Wild Cat shown at the Crystal Palace Cat Show, 1871
Wild Cat shown at the Crystal Palace Cat Show, 1871 - Young Persian Kitten
Young Persian Kitten - 'Dinah'
'Dinah' - Brick House at Jamestown
Brick House at Jamestown, about 1640. (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.) - French Garrison Gun
French Garrison Gun (1650-1700). The gun is on a sloping wooden platform at the embrasure. Note the heavy bed on which the cheeks of the carriage rest and the built-in skid under the center of the rear axletree. - Dog on Seat
Dog sleeping in a chair - Light Artillery of Gustavus Adolphus
Gustavus abandoned the leather gun, however, in favor of a cast-iron 4-pounder and a 9-pounder demiculverin produced by his bright young artillery chief, Lennart Torstensson. The demiculverin was classed as the "feildpeece" par excellence, while the 4-pounder was so light (about 500 pounds) that two horses could pull it in the field. - Cat watching Mouse hole
Cat watching Mouse hole - Cat and Kittens
Cat and Kittens - Paris on Mount Ida
An illustration is given, from Hope's "Costume of the Ancients," of Paris on Mount Ida, in which he is figured as wearing a closely fitting garment which covers the whole body and limbs, being buttoned all the way up the legs and arms; a short tunic, also buttoned up the front, being worn over this dress - Horned Head-dress Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, 1439
- Kittens after the Show
Kittens after the Show - Tunic
The earliest made-up garment, that in which the art of the tailor was called into play, was doubtless a simple bag, more or less closely fitting to the body and of varying length, with holes for the arms and an opening for the neck. Such a primitive garment has been worn in varying forms at all periods of the world's history, and is in use at the present time in the form of the ordinary singlet. The modern singlet is, in fact, the simple, primeval type of the tunic. - What is it
Kittens watching a mouse - German Soldier
The Germans had brought with them over the Rhine none of the heroic virtues attributed to them by Tacitus when he wrote their history, with the evident intention of making a satire on his countrymen. Amongst the degenerate Romans whom those ferocious Germans had subjugated, civilisation was reconstituted on the ruins of vices common in the early history of a new society by the adoption of a series of loose and dissolute habits, both by the conquerors and the conquered. - Mountain lion
Mountain lion - Costume of the Franks in the Eighth Century
Costume of the Franks in the Eighth Century - Anglo Saxon Retainer
- Priest
The illustration shows a priest wearing nothing but a loin cloth and a leopard skin. - Hunifer
- Group of kittens in a box
Group of kittens in a box - Remains Lying in state at Chicago
Remains Lying in state at Chicago - Costumes of the Franks from the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries
The period known as the Middle Ages, says the learned Benjamin Guérard, is the produce of Pagan civilisation, of Germanic barbarism, and of Christianity. It began in 476, on the fall of Agustulus, and ended in 1453, at the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II., and consequently the fall of two empires, that of the West and that of the East, marks its duration. Its first act, which was due to the Germans, was the destruction of political unity, and this was destined to be afterwards replaced by religions unity. Then we find a multitude of scattered and disorderly influences growing on the ruins of central power. The yoke of imperial dominion was broken by the barbarians; but the populace, far from acquiring liberty, fell to the lowest degrees of servitude. Instead of one despot, it found thousands of tyrants, and it was but slowly and with much trouble that it succeeded in freeing itself from feudalism. Nothing could be more strangely troubled than the West at the time of the dissolution of the Empire of the Caesars; nothing more diverse or more discordant than the interests, the institutions, and the state of society, which were delivered to the Germans