- Luther Burbank
- Man in pub having a beer
Man in pub having a beer - Man in checked pant
- The Natural Waist and the Effects of Lacing
The Natural Waist The ribs of large curve; the lungs large and roomy; the liver stomach and bowels in their normal position; all with abundant room. Effects of Lacing The ribs bent almost to angles; the lungs contracted; the liver, stomach and intestines forced down into the pelvis, crowding the womb seriously. - Unhappy man with cigar
Unhappy man with cigar - Your'e not crying, are you?
boy and girl talking - Save the girls
Depiction of the choice a woman must make in life. - Lady sitting thoughtfully in the garden
Young lady sitting thoughtfully in an arbor in the garden holding a book - A busboy
- Man fallen out of bed
- Maid bringing a candle to a scared child in bed
- Conductor asking passenger for the fare
Conductor asking passenger for the fare - Maid looking at sleeping man in bed
- Man walking
Man walking - Man awake in bed at 3 am
- Pleased to meet you
Pleased to meet you, man showing respect when greeting someone - Old Lady
- Found upon the doorstep
Woman opening the door to find a baby in a basket - How do you do
- Man kneeling beside bed holding the arms of a child
- Baby in bath
Baby in bath - They swoop down over the trenches
British plane flying over the trenches in the great war - A Kitten playing
A Kitten playing (or sleeping) - A blacksmith
- Haughty maid talking to a man visiting lady in bed
- Boy in bed talking to his mother
- Man and woman riding on donkeys
Man and woman riding on donkeys - Burglar pointing a gun at man in bed
- Indian trumpets
The botuto, which Gumilla saw used by some tribes near the river Orinoco (of which we engrave two examples), was evidently an ancient Indian contrivance, but appears to have fallen almost into oblivion during the last two centuries. It was made of baked clay and was commonly from three to four feet long: but some trumpets of this kind were of enormous size. The botuto with two bellies was usually made thicker than that with three bellies and emitted a deeper sound, which is described as having been really terrific. These trumpets were used on occasions of mourning and funeral dances. Alexander von Humboldt saw the botuto among some Indian tribes near the river Orinoco. - Man talking to man in hospital bed
- LAdy talks to girl in bed
- Boy not too excited about breakfast
- Steel Corset worn in Catherine's time.
The most extensive and extreme use of the corset occurred in the 16th century, during the reign of Catherine de Medici of France and Queen Elizabeth of England. With Catherine de Medici a thirteen-inch waist measurement was considered the standard of fashion, while a thick waist was an abomination. No lady could consider her figure of proper shape unless she could span her waist with her two hands. To produce this result a strong rigid corset was worn night and day until the waist was laced down to the required size. Then over this corset was placed the steel apparatus shown in the illustration on next page. This corset-cover reached from the hip to the throat, and produced a rigid figure over which the dress would fit with perfect smoothness. - Nurse sitting down beside a patient in bed
- Mother and small girl in bed saying goodight
- Louis XVI on the leads of the temple
After an engraving of the period. - Smiling and rubbing his hands
Man smiling and rubbing his hands - Man in bed havinga bad dream
- Kitten and puppy playing
Kitten and puppy playing with a basket of apples - Citole
A small psalterium with strings placed over a sound-board was apparently the prototype of the citole; a kind of dulcimer which was played with the fingers. The names were not only often vaguely applied by the mediæval writers but they changed also 89in almost every century. The psalterium, or psalterion (Italian salterio, English psaltery), of the fourteenth century and later had the trapezium shape of the dulcimer. - Ships the British navy might have had
Ships the British navy might have had! Freaks of marine architecture that have not been officially adopted. We illustrate here some curious designs for war-ships by various inventors. No. 1 is McDougal's Armoured Whale-back, with conning-towers, a design of 1892 for converting whalebacks into war-vessels. No. 2 is an American design of 1892, Commodore Folger's Dynamite Ram, cigar-shaped, with two guns throwing masses of dynamite or aerial torpedoes. No. 3 is a design by the Earl of Mayo in 1894 and called "Aries the Ram," built round an immense beam of steel terminating in a sharp point, No. 4 is Gathmann's boat for a heavy gun forward, designed in 1900. She was to be of great speed, and the forward gun was to throw 600 lb. of gun-cotton at the rate of 2000 feet per second. A formidable Armada this, had it been practicable. - Man wakes up while a burglar is staling his silverware
- Large man looking at the puny chair
- Why the blazes don't you take it?
Huckster trying to sell something to a man - Lady and small girl visiting a lady in bed
- Whats she got hold of now?
Dog asking what his mistress has. - man and woman
Lady (with a fan) looks away from a man who is talking to her. - Butler bring a steaming hot bowl of soup to a man in bed
- He Felt giddy
- Carillon, Netherlands
The idea of forming of a number of bells a musical instrument such as the carillon is said by some to have suggested itself first to the English and Dutch; but what we have seen in Asiatic countries sufficiently refutes this. Moreover, not only the Romans employed variously arranged and attuned bells, but also among the Etruscan antiquities an instrument has been discovered which is constructed of a number of bronze vessels placed in a row on a metal rod. Numerous bells, varying in size and tone, have also been found in Etruscan tombs. Among the later contrivances of this kind in European countries the sets of bells suspended in a wooden frame, which we find in mediæval illuminations, deserve notice. In the British museum is a manuscript of the fourteenth century in which king David is depicted holding in each hand a hammer with which he strikes upon bells of different dimensions, suspended on a wooden stand. - Map of 1515
Map of 1515, showing what some geographers then supposed North America to be. This is one of the earliest maps on which the name America occurs. It will be notices that at that time it was confined to South America. - Saint Liedwi, Of Scheidam, Holland, A. D. 1396
The First known skating Illustration - Man and Woman
Man talking to a woman who is not giving him her full attention - Greek Lyres
The Greeks had lyres of various kinds, more or less differing in construction, form, and size, and distinguished by different names; such as lyra, 30kithara, chelys, phorminx, etc. Lyra appears to have implied instruments of this class in general, and also the lyre with a body oval at the base and held upon the lap or in the arms of the performer; while the kithara had a square base and was held against the breast. These distinctions have, however, not been satisfactorily ascertained. The chelys was a small lyre with the body made of the shell of a tortoise, or of wood in imitation of the tortoise. The phorminx was a large lyre; and, like the kithara, was used at an early period singly, for accompanying recitations. It is recorded that the kithara was employed for solo performances as early as B.C. 700. - Battleplanes convoying photographing aeroplanes
Battleplanes convoying photographing aeroplanes - A family
A couple with their four children - What will the girl become
The Two Paths: What Will the Girl Become? At 13 Bad Literature, At 20 Flirting Coquettery, At 26 Fast Life and Dissipation, At 40 An Outcast; At 13 Study & Obedience, At 20 Virtue & Devotion, At 26 A Loving Mother, At 60 An Honored Grandmother - Two men talking
Two men talking - Femme-de-la-cour and foundling
Femme-de-la-cour (Lady of the Court) and foundling - Battle between aeroplane and British tank
Battle between aeroplane and British tank