- Birthplace of Lamarck - Front View
Birthplace of Lamarck - Front View - Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid - Biker with beard
Biker with beard - Bicyclist
- Bettina von Arnim
- Bernard Palissy
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
It is hard to measure the men of one period of history with those in another. Some writers, even American writers, impressed by the artificial splendours of the European courts and by the tawdry and destructive exploits of a Frederick the Great or a Great Catherine, display a snobbish shame of something homespun about these makers of America. They feel that Benjamin Franklin at the court of Louis XVI, with his long hair, his plain clothes, and his pawky manner, was sadly lacking in aristocratic distinction. But stripped to their personalities, Louis XVI was hardly gifted enough or noble-minded enough to be Franklin’s valet. - Benjamin Franklin
American independence, the beginnings of which we have just been considering, was accomplished after a long struggle. Many brave men fought on the battle-field, and many who never shouldered a musket or drew a sword exerted a powerful influence for the good of the patriot cause. One of these men was Benjamin Franklin. He was born in Boston in 1706, the fifteenth child in a family of seventeen children. His father was a candle-maker and soap-boiler. Intending to make a clergyman of Benjamin, he sent him, at eight years of age, to a grammar-school, with the purpose of fitting him for college. The boy made rapid progress, but before the end of his first school-year his father took him out on account of the expense, and put him into a school where he would learn more practical subjects, such as writing and arithmetic. The last study proved very difficult for him. - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli - Beastly Beard
Beastly Beard - Bearded man waiting for dinner
Bearded man waiting for dinner - Bathtime 2
- Bathtime
- Bashful lady
- Bartender looking at beer
Bartender looking at beer - Barry Cornwall
- Bandage of the knee
- Badminton in the studio
From the painting by R.W. MacBeth, A.R.A. - Baby sees a mouse
- Baby on floor
- Baby in bath
Baby in bath - Baby and Blackbird
Little toddler pointing to a blackbird - Baby
- Au Montmartre
- At the top of the swing
At the top of the swing - At the Royal Academy - Her first picture. Skied
- At The Café De Horlogue
- At D’Armenonville
- At a Comedy
- Asking an honest question
A man and woman talking - Ashes of Roses
This careful drawing, from the painting by Mr. Boughton, in the Royal Academy, reproduced by the Dawson process, is interesting for variety of treatment and indication of textures in pen and ink. It is like the picture, but it has also the individuality of the draughtsman, as in line engraving. Size of drawing about 6½ x 3½ in - Ascending spica of shoulder
- Ascending spica bandage of groin
- Arm 2
- Arm
- Aristide Bruant’s
- Aren’t there a couple of young men in there with Clara
“Aren’t there a couple of young men in there with Clara?” “No, only one. There isn’t a sound.” - Are you going to volunteer
She: Are you going to volunteer? He: If yes, no. If no, yes. - Another case of trying to keep neutral
Couple sitting on a park bench not really communicating - Anna Jameson
- Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie - An Odd Volume
A seated man reading a book - An excellent device for catching minnows
The simplest way to catch minnows is with a drop net. Take an iron ring or hoop such as children use and sew to it a bag of cotton mosquito netting, half as deep as the diameter of the ring. Sew a weight in the bottom of the net to make it sink readily and fasten it to a pole. When we reach the place which the minnows frequent, such as the cove of a lake, we must proceed very cautiously, lowering the net into the water and then baiting it with bits of bread or meat, a very little at a time, until we see a school of bait darting here and there over the net. We must then give a quick lift without any hesitation and try to catch as many as possible from escaping over the sides. The minnow bucket should be close at hand to transfer them to and care must be used not to injure them or allow them to scale themselves in their efforts to escape. - An Egyptian Woman
An Egyptian Woman - An easy-going disposition
A cat eating from the counter while a lady ignores the cat - An argument with the leading lady
- An anatomical diagram of about 1298
An anatomical diagram of about 1298 - An American Girl
- An after-dinner relief
- Alton B. Parker
Alton B. Parker - Alice Cunningham Fletcher
This little girl was Alice Cunningham Fletcher. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1845. As she grew older, the thought came to her that if she felt so happy out in the open, how must the Indians feel who had lived a free out-of-door life for generations. Gradually she began to think that these people, whom the world called savages, must have learned something about how to live happily. Alice Fletcher resolved that, if ever there came a time when it was possible, she would go to the home of the Indians and try to discover their secrets. Meanwhile she studied all that books and museums could teach her of the story of the Red Men. At last, there did come a day when she decided to go and live among them. It meant leaving behind her, beloved libraries, fine concerts, beautiful pictures, and even a comfortable bed and easy chair. Miss Fletcher felt, however, that there was something that meant more than comfort to her. It was the doing of a definite piece of work that she believed would be useful to the world. Therefore, she left the friends with whom she could talk of books, pictures, and music, and went to live among the Dakota and Omaha Indians. From the door of her rude wigwam of buffalo skins, she could watch the little Indian children at play and see the everyday life of the older members of the tribe. - Alfred Tennyson
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander Smith
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander H. Stephens
Alexander H. Stephens - Albert Engstrom
Albert Engstrom