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The Fraserians
17 visits
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John Gibson Lockhart
18 visits
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Samuel Rogers
19 visits
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Thomas Moore
17 visits
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Lord Brougham
20 visits
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Washington Irving
18 visits
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John Wilson Croker
17 visits
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Sir John C. Hobhouse
17 visits
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Michael Faraday
26 visits
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Queen Victoria in 1839
24 visits
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Napoleon at Longwood
22 visits
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The Centralia Conspiracy
35 visits
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Corean Costumes
26 visits
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Corean Costumes
29 visits
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Corean Costumes
25 visits
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Corean Costumes
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Mailed Warrior
22 visits
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Founder of Han - 11th Century BC
25 visits
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Empress Woo
25 visits
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Chinese Woman - 11th Century BC
50 visits
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Young Gentleman Louis XIII period - 1625 - 1640
134 visits
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Women's Costume during the Directory - 1795 - 1800
132 visits
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Tie-back skirt
Late '7o's and Early '8o's
The bustle remained an important feature after the panier effect had been discarded. The skirts were made severely plain and were pulled back by strings, so as to fit with extreme snugness in the front. At the
back, however, they were drawn out over a bustle of such extent that the fashion plates of the late '70's now have the appearance of caricatures.
146 visits
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The more practical gown of the Empire Period
125 visits
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The Incroyable of the Revolution Period - 1795
"Incroyable" (incredible) was the sobriquet given to the fops or dandies of the later Revolutionary period. Here is the description of one of these remarkably dressed personages as given by the French writer, Honore de Balzac:
The costume of his unknown presented an exact picture of the fashion which at that time called forth the caricatures of the Incroyables.
Imagine a person muffled in a coat so short in front that there showed beneath five or six inches of the waistcoat and with skirts so long behind that they resembled a codfish tail, a term then commonly employed to designate them. An immense cravat formed round his neck such innumerable folds that the little head emerging from a labyrinth of muslin almost justified Captain Merle's kitchen simile. [Merle had described the Incroyable as looking "like a duck with its head
protruding from a game pie."] The stranger wore tight breeches and boots a la Suwarrow; a huge white and blue cameo was stuck, as a pin, in his shirt. Two watch chains hung in parallel festoons at his waist, and his hair, hanging in corkscrew curls on each side of the face, almost
hid his forehead. Finally, as a last touch of decoration, the collars of his shirt and his coat rose so high that his head presented the appearance of a bouquet in its paper wrappings. If there be
added to these insignificant details, which formed a mass of disparities with no ensemble, the absurd contrast of his yellow breeches, his red waistcoat, his cinnamon brown coat, a faithful portrait will be given of the height of fashion at which dandies aimed at the beginning of the Consulate Preposterous as the costume was, it seemed to have been invented as a sort of touchstone of elegance to show that nothing can be too absurd for fashion to hallow it.
124 visits
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The Grecian Bend , a feature of the late 70's
153 visits
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NO radical change in womens' costumes occurrred until the early fifties when what are known as the "Second Empire" styles were introduced. A remarkable feature of the fashions set by Eugenie, the consort of Napoleon III, was the enormous crinoline, of which we have more than once in recent years been threatened with a revival.
The monstrous dimensions of women's skirts during the period from 1853 to the early seventies afforded an excellent theme for the pencil of the comic artist, and those who care to search the volumes of "Punch"
and other illustrated publications of English and French origin, as well as those produced at the time in this country, will find both exact reproductions and caricatures of this style of costume.
128 visits
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The 1840 style
127 visits
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The 1830 Effect
127 visits
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Street costume Late Louis XVI period - 1790
114 visits
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Reversion to the classic (Grecian) type
97 visits
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Mousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620- 1640
112 visits
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Morning costume of Dandy of the early Revolutionary period - 1791
103 visits
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Middle class costume during French Revolution - showing Charlotte Corday cap
104 visits
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Marie Antoinette style - Late Louis XVI period - 1790
117 visits
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Men's street costume Late Revolution and early Empire
94 visits
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Dress in the time of Louis XV
108 visits
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Louis XIV Period - about 1700
124 visits
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Louis XIV Period - about 1670
121 visits
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Louis XIII - about 1640
127 visits
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Later Louis XIV Period 1700 - 1715
117 visits
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Late Empire - Ball dress and street costume
119 visits
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Henry IV or early Stuart Period
107 visits
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Henry IV or early Stuart - 1600 - 1615
140 visits
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Gentleman of the early Louis XV Period
105 visits
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French Restoration period - 1823
134 visits
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Evening dress of Directoire and early first Empire 1798 - 1804
126 visits
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Elizabethan or Marie Stuart Period - 1558 - 1600
125 visits
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Elizabethan or Henry III Period - showing Medicis Collar
113 visits
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Elizabethan or Henry III - 1570
126 visits
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Early days of the crinoline - 1855
131 visits
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Days of the pannier
111 visits
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Court Dress 1550 - Tudor or Francis I
112 visits
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Court Dress 1540 - Tudor or Francis I
126 visits
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Court costume Louis XVI - about 1780
121 visits
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Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII
100 visits
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Citizens Dress of 1545
119 visits
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Ball Costume 1825
134 visits
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Noble of the Tudor or Louis XI Period
109 visits
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Court Dress of tudor or Louis XI Period
118 visits
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Court Dress of 1390
129 visits
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Court Dress - Early 15th Century
126 visits
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Citizen of Early tudor or Louis XI Period
95 visits
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Young Gentleman of the 14th Century
114 visits
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Young Woman's dress - 14th Century
118 visits
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Nobleman of the 13th Century
116 visits
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Court Dress - Latter part of 13th Century
113 visits
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Another pamphlet, of 1613, has the annexed woodcut, and is entitled ‘Lamentable Newes, shewing the Wonderful Deliverance of Maister Edmond Pet, Sayler, and Maister of a Ship, dwelling in Seething-lane, in London, neere Barking Church; with other strange things lately hapned concerning those great windes and tempestuous weather, both at Sea and Lande. Imprinted at London by T. C., for William Barley, dwelling over against Cree Church, neere Algate. 1613.’ It describes the wreck of a Newcastle ship on the east coast, and how ‘Maister Pet,’ after being exposed to the winds and waves for forty-eight hours, was rescued by a Dutch man-of-war, he being the only survivor from his ship. It will be seen the woodcut represents two seamen lowering what appears to be an arm-chair into the sea. This was probably the artist’s notion of the safest and most comfortable way to rescue shipwrecked persons.
32 visits
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Phororhacos, a Patagonian Giant of the Miocene
From a Drawing by Charles R. Knight
Most recent in point of discovery, but oldest in point of time, are the giant birds from Patagonia, which are burdened with the name of Phororhacidæ, a name that originated in an error, although the error may well be excused. The first fragment of one of these great birds to come to light was a portion of the lower jaw, and this was so massive, so un-bird-like, [149]that the finder dubbed it Phororhacos, and so it must remain.
55 visits
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The very rocks themselves may consist largely of fossils; chalk, for example, is mainly made up of the disintegrated shells of simple marine animals called foraminifers, and the beautiful flint-like "skeletons" of other small creatures termed radiolarians, minute as they are, have contributed extensively to the formation of some strata.
44 visits
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Still higher up we come upon the abundant remains of numerous small fish-like animals, more or less completely clad in bony armor, indicating that they lived in troublous times when there was literally a fight for existence and only such as were well armed or well protected could hope to survive. A parallel case exists to-day in some of the rivers of South America, where the little cat-fishes would possibly be eaten out of existence but for the fact that they are covered—some of them very completely—with plate-armor that enables them to defy their enemies, or renders them such poor eating as not to be worth the taking. The arrangement of the plates or scales in the living Loricaria is very suggestive of the series of bony rings covering the body of the ancient Cephalaspis, only the latter, so far as we know, had no side-fins; but the creatures are in no wise related, and the similarity is in appearance only.
48 visits
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erichthys, the wing fish, was another small, quaint, armor-clad creature, whose fossilized remains were taken for those of a crab, and once described as belonging to a beetle. Certainly the buckler of this fish, which is the part most often preserved, with its jointed, bony arms, looks to the untrained eye far more like some strange crustacean than a fish, and even naturalists have pictured the animal as crawling over the bare sands by means of those same arms. These fishes and their allies were once the dominant type of life, and must have abounded in favored localities, for in places are great deposits of their protective shields jumbled together in a confused mass, and, save that they have hardened into stone, lying just as they were washed up on the ancient beach ages ago. How abundant they were may be gathered from the fact that it is believed their bodies helped consolidate portions of the strata of the English Old Red Sandstone.
49 visits
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In the light of our present knowledge we are able to read many things in these tracks that were formerly more or less obscure, and to see in them a complete verification of Dr. Deane's suspicion that they were not made by birds. We see clearly that the long tracks called Anomœpus, with their accompanying short fore feet, mark where some Dinosaur squatted down to rest or progressed slowly on all-fours, as does the kangaroo when feeding quietly;[3] and we interpret the curious heart-shaped depression sometimes seen back of the feet, not as the mark of a stubby tail, but as made by the ends of the slender pubes, bones that help form the hip-joints. Then, too, the mark of the inner, or short first, toe, is often very evident, although it was a long time before the bones of this toe were actually found, and many of the Dinosaurs now known to have four toes were supposed to have but three.
47 visits
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The Track of a Three-toed Dinosaur
50 visits
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The finest Mosasaur skeleton ever discovered, an almost complete skeleton of Tylosaurus dyspelor, 29 feet in length, may be seen at the head of the staircase leading to the Hall of Paleontology, in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Another good specimen may be seen in the Yale University Museum, which probably has the largest collection of Mosasaurs in existence.
42 visits
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One might think that a creature sixty or seventy feet long was amply long enough, but Dr. Albert Koch thought otherwise, and did with Zeuglodon as, later on, he did with the Mastodon, combining the vertebræ of several individuals until he had a monster 114 feet long! This he exhibited in Europe under the name of Hydrarchus, or water king, finally disposing of the composite creature to the Museum of Dresden, where it was promptly reduced to its proper dimensions. The natural make-up of Zeuglodon is sufficiently composite without any aid from man, for the head and paddles are not unlike those of a seal, the ribs are like those of a manatee, and the shoulder blades are precisely like those of a whale, while the vertebræ are different from those of any other animal, even its own cousin and lesser contemporary Dorudon
44 visits
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The best Zeuglodon, the first to show the vestigial hind legs and to make clear other portions of the structure, is in the United States National Museum
41 visits
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Nature's Four Methods of Making a Wing - Bat, Pteryodactyl, Archæopteryx, and Modern Bird
40 visits
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Image 5760
45 visits
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Image 5761
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