- Six O’clock
- ‘The tiger and the mirror’
- A Cats Eye
A Cats Eye - The Eastern Empire and the Sassanids
- Latest model 12inch disappearing carriage and gun
United States Carriage model of 1896 - Sinking of the Alabama
- Officers Undress 1891
- The Thyra
- Vaulting the bar at ten feet six inches
- On the Bank
- ‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
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- M.G. 42, showing method of operating barrel extension
- Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign)
Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign) - The Recording Angel and Star of Redemption
The Recording Angel and Star of Redemption - Milking a cow
Milking a cow - Lapwing ( Vanellus cristatus )
The Lapwing is recognizable by the weakly flask-shaped swollen bill, on the four-toed feet, on the blunt wings, whose point is formed by the third pin and by the crest that adorns the head. The upper head, the front neck, the upper breast and the rear half of the tail are glossy dark black, the feathers of the mantle dark green with blue or purple highlights, the sides of the neck, the under breast, the belly and the root half of the tail feathers white, some upper and all lower cover feathers of the tail dark rusty yellow; the crest consists of long, narrow feathers, which form a double point. The eye is brown, the beak black, the foot dirty dark red. Total length 34, tail length 10 cm. [Translaed from the Dutch by online translator] - Fruit
Fruit - Richard II. delivered by Bolingbroke to the Citizens of London
- sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
- Mother bird feeding young in nest
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- Kitten thinking
- Barbara's Birthday
- Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, d’après Nicolle
- Hunters with crossbows
- State, War and Navy Departments, Washington, D. C.
- The Treachourous Kayak
The Treachourous Kayak Mastering all the literature of the Arctic, he (Charles Hall) determined to undertake himself the arduous work of the explorer. Taking passage on a whaler, he spent several years among the Esquimaux, living in their crowded and fetid igloos, devouring the blubber and uncooked fish that form their staple articles of diet, wearing their garb of furs, learning to navigate the treacherous kayak in tossing seas, to direct the yelping, quarreling team of dogs over fields of ice as rugged as the edge of some monstrous saw, studying the geography so far as known of the Arctic regions, perfecting himself in all the arts by which man has contested the supremacy of that land with the ice-king. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne is one of the earliest story-tellers whom we remember as much for himself as for his books. He is loved or hated, as an essayist is loved or hated, without reference to the subjects on which he happened to write. He wrote in a community for whom a writer was still so novel as to possess some rags of the old splendours of the sage; an author was something wonderful, and no mere business man. - Dordrecht (dated 1702)
Dordrecht (dated 1702) - Byzantine enamels from the Limburg reliquary
- Man Lion
- The approach to Constantinople
From Anselmi Banduri Imperium orientale, tome II., p. 448. 2 vols. folio. Parisiis, 1711. - Divider
Divider - Due on Wines
Due on Wines To add to these already excessive rates and taxes, there were endless dues, under all shapes and names, claimed by the ecclesiastical lords. And not only did the nobility make without scruple these enormous exactions, but the Crown supported them in avenging any act, however opposed to all sense of justice; so that the nobles were really placed above the great law of equality, without which the continuance of social order seemed normally impossible. - Chinese Field piece Peiho 1860
- Home Visitors
- Anchor divider
- James I Female
- Daniel and the lions
- Egyptian Peasants (Pyramid Age)
Egyptian peasants seized for non-payment of taxes ... (Pyramid Age) - Stone in Front of the Harrington House
Stone in Front of the Harrington House, Lexington, Marking the Line of the Minute-Men - In the jump
- Sixteenth-century Suit of Plate
- Period 1688-1702
- Hittite ladies drinking
The Hittites had been a powerful and civilized nation when the Jews were in an exceedingly primitive condition, and Abraham found them the rightful possessors of Hebron, in Southern Palestine (Gen. xxiii.), and so far recognised their rights to the soil, as to purchase from them the Cave of Machpelah for “four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.” Their power afterwards waned, as they had left Hebron and taken to the mountains, as was reported by the spies sent by Moses, four hundred years afterwards (Num. xiii.), but they have left behind them carvings which throw some light upon their social customs. For instance, here is one of two ladies partaking of a social glass together. Unfortunately, we do not know at present the true meaning of their inscriptions, for scholars are yet at variance as to the translation of them. - Comfort
- The microscope reveals many things
The microscope reveals many things - Head-hunting Party, Igorrotes
- Boston, as Viewed from the Bay
- Lumpers discharging timber ship
- Sherman's headquarters
- The Tower of London
- Machinery for raising the Portcullis, Tower of London
- ‘The young Edward III.’
- The Star of Bethlehem
The Wise men following the star - Cat looking over a wall
- Océanie, Pêche aux Palmes
- Nest of the Chicadee
- Snow-shoes
The most ingenious work of the Indians was seen in the moccasin, the snow-shoe and the birch-bark canoe. The moccasin was a shoe made of buckskin, - durable, soft, pliant, noiseless. It was the best covering for a hunter's foot that human skill ever contrived. The snow-shoe was a light frame of wood, covered with a network of strings of hide, and having such a broad surface that the wearer could walk on snow in the pursuit of game. Without it the Indian might have starved in a severe winter, since only by its use could he run down the deer at that season.