- Making Potash at Jamestown
Soap-ashes and potash were among the first commodities produced by the English in America. Potash was made from soap-ashes (wood ashes, especially those obtained from burning ash and elm) and was used at Jamestown for making both soap and glass. Soap-ashes were exported to England as early as 1608, and throughout the remainder of the century it appears that both potash and soap-ashes were shipped to the mother country, As early as 1621 soap-ashes were selling for six shillings to eight shillings per hundred weight, whereas potash was bringing between thirty-five shillings and forty shillings per hundred weight - Making Pewter Spoons At Jamestown About 1675
A pewterer who lived thirty miles from Jamestown—Joseph Copeland by name—made the oldest dated piece of American pewter which has been found. In the 1930's, National Park Service archeologists, working at Jamestown, recovered the significant specimen—an incomplete pewter spoon which is a variant of the trifid or split-end type common during the 1650-1690 period. - Making of bone needles
- Making of bone needles
- Making Lime From Oyster Shells, About 1625
In order to build brick houses lime was needed by the bricklayers and plasterers for making plaster and mortar. Contemporary records reveal that "lymeburners" emigrated to Jamestown as early as 1610. As four lime kilns were found during archeological excavations, it is evident that the lime used by the Jamestown builders was made on the historic island. In the kilns oyster shells from the James River were burned and converted into lime by the limeburners. - Making Lime
Making lime from oyster shells in a kiln, about 1625. (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.) - Making Jam
- Making hearts for Valentine
- Making Grass Rope
- Making Grass Rope
- Making Glass At Jamestown In 1608
Glass was made at Jamestown in 1608-1609, and again in 1621-1624, its manufacture being one of the first English industries in the New World. Among the colonists who reached Jamestown in October, 1608, were "eight Dutchmen and Poles," some of whom were glassmakers. When Captain Christopher Newport sailed for England a few weeks later he carried with him "tryals of pitch, tarre, glasse, frankincense, sope ashes; with that clapboard and waynscot that could be provided." It is not known what kinds of glass were taken to England by Newport. - Making Fire 2
- Making Fire 2
- Making Fire
- Making Fire
- Making Couscous in the Desert
- Making cookies
Young girl doing some baking while her cat looks on - Making Brick At Jamestown About 1650
Making Brick At Jamestown About 1650 - Making Apple Pie for Bob
- Making an opening for a runner, under the old rules, by using the arms
Making an opening for a runner, under the old rules, by using the arms - Making an Embankment
After the railway line has been finally located, the next duty of the engineers is to prepare the work for letting. Land-plans are made, from which the right of way is secured. From the sections, the quantities are taken out. Plans of bridges and culverts are made; and a careful specification of all the works on the line is drawn up. The works are then let, either to one large contractor or to several smaller ones, and the labor of construction begins. The duties of the engineers are to stake out the work for the contractors, make monthly returns of its progress, and see that it is well done and according to the specifications and contract. The line is divided into sections, and an engineer, with his assistants, is placed in charge of each. Where the works are heavy, the contractors build shanties for their men and teams near the heavy cuttings or embankments. It is the custom to take out heavy cuttings by means of the machine called a steam shovel, which will dig as many yards in a day as 500 men. - Making a booth -3
Weave or bind tops together so as to make a leafy roof, or shade, as in Figure. For binding, use strips of elm bark; or slender willows, twisted, so as to break the fibers - Making a booth -2
Into the six holes set willows, or branches, five or six feet high - Making a booth -1
Buffalo-Bird Woman tells of the booth which Turtle made in her cornfield. A booth is easily made of willows or long branches. A short digging stick will be needed. This was of ash, a foot or two in length, sharpened at one end by burning in a fire. The point was often rubbed with fat and charred over the coals to harden it. (Such a digging stick was not the kind used for cultivating corn.) If you have no ash stick, a section of a broom handle will do. With a stone, drive the digging stick four inches in the ground, as in Figure. Withdraw digging stick and repeat until you have six holes set in a circle. The diameter of the circle should be about five feet. - Making 'Trials'
Making “trialls” Of iron. Evidences of an earth oven or small furnace were discovered at Jamestown during archeological explorations. Small amounts of iron may have been smelted in the furnace during the early years of the settlement. (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.) - Major Gray, with the butt of a navy revolver, rapped vigorously upon the door
- Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman - Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson
- Mailed Warrior - 11th Century
- Mailed Warrior
Mailed Warrior - Mail Coaches Racing - Something Wrong with the Opposition Coach
- Maidservants
Dress of Maidservants in the Thirteenth Century.--Miniature in a Manuscript of the National Library of Paris. - Maiden with long hair divider
- Maid looking at sleeping man in bed
- Maid consoles small boy kneeling on the bed
- Maid bringing a candle to a scared child in bed
- Maid and mother talking to unhappy boy in bed
- Magistrate and Servant
- Maggi's instruments
- Maggi's instruments
- Maggi's instruments
- Magdalenian Painting
- Magdalenian Painting
- Magdalenian Cave Painting
- Magdalenian Cave Painting
- Magdalenian Carved Ivory Dagger
- Magdalenian Carved Ivory Dagger
- Magdaleneian Carved Ivory Harpoon-thrower
- Magdaleneian Carved Ivory Harpoon-thrower
- Magdalen College
- Madame de Pompadour
- Madam Campan
Lady-In-waiting to Marie Antoinette - Mack
Cat trying to open the door - Machinery for raising the Portcullis, Tower of London
- Machine for throwing stones 3
- Machine for throwing stones 2
- Machine for throwing stones
- Machine for throwing darts
- Machin
The legend reads: “Machin, the staff officer, the terror of the soldier, doesn’t joke with the rules and regulations; has risen from the `rank` and file; a very useful individual; it’s always Machin here and Machin there, ask Machin. He terrorizes the one-year volunteers, whom he treats as young shoots (literal translation beets); an old bachelor to the core.” - Machiavelli