- William Waldorf Astor
William Waldorf Astor - The Grandmother
OLd Lady - Study of a head
Study of a head - St. John's Church
On the other side of High Street stands St. John's Episcopal Church, the lot for which was given in 1796 by the Deakins' family. Reverend Walter Addison of Prince Georges County, Maryland, had visited George Town in 1794 and 1795 and held occasional services, so a movement was started to build a church. Among the subscribers were Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Balch. - Silhouette of man
Silhouette of man - Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes - Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Burns
Robert Burns Caricature - Right Eye
Right Eye - Portrait of young man
Portrait of young man - Portrait of Fred Walker
Portrait of Fred Walker - Pointing Finger
Pointing Finger - Paul Robin
Paul Robin (1837–1912) was a French educator and scientist. - Painters palette
Painters palette - Open Hand
Open Hand - Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam - Oldest known image of Columbus
Oldest known image of Columbus - Old Mans Head
Old Mans Head - Negro Types
Some “anthropologists” have even indulged in a speculation whether mankind may not have a double or treble origin; the negro being descended from a gorilla-like ancestor, the Chinese from a chimpanzee-like ancestor, and so on. These are very fanciful ideas, to be mentioned only to be dismissed. It was formerly assumed that the human ancestor was “probably arboreal,” but the current idea among those who are qualified to form an opinion seems to be that he was a “ground ape,” and that the existing apes have developed in the arboreal direction. - Mr H H Champion
Henry Hyde Champion (22 January 1859 – 30 April 1928) - Mr Colquhoun
Mr Colquhoun - Mongolian Types
Possibly they mingled to a certain extent. There is little to prevent our believing that they survived without much intermixture for a long time in north Asia, that “pockets” of them remained here and there in Europe, that there is a streak of their blood in most European peoples to-day, and that there is a much stronger streak, if not a predominant strain, in the Mongolian and American races. - Men in top hats
Men in top hats - Man with umbrella
Man with umbrella - Man with cane
Man with cane - Man with beard
Man with beard - Man with a gun
Meeting at the crossroads - Two men on horses, one with a gun - Man with a bicycle
Zimmerman and his machine - Man standing
Man standing - Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus - 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.” - M R Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855) was an English author and dramatist. - Left Hand
Left Hand - Left Foot
Left Foot - Lamarck - Aged 35
Lamarck - Aged 35 - Lamarck
Although there has been and still may be a difference of opinion as to the value and permanency of Lamarck’s theoretical views, there has never been any lack of appreciation of his labors as a systematic zoölogist. He was undoubtedly the greatest zoölogist of his time. Lamarck is the one dominant personage who in the domain of zoölogy filled the interval between Linné and Cuvier, and in acuteness and sound judgment he at times surpassed Cuvier. His was the master mind of the period of systematic zoölogy, which began with Linné—the period which, in the history of zoölogy, preceded that of comparative anatomy and morphology. - Ladies' Fashions for February 1852
We are in the midst of the gay season, but its modes, until disturbed by the approach of spring, were fixed before the holidays, and for the most part have already been reported. The Paris journals, we may remark, however, dwell much on the unusual ascendency of black, in furs, velvets, cloths, and other heavy stuffs, for walking and carriage dresses, and on the greater demand than in recent winters for every species of embroidery. - King Cophetua
King Cophetua - Julius Cæsar
It is the custom of historians to treat these struggles with extreme respect. In particular the figure of Julius Cæsar is set up as if it were a star of supreme brightness and importance in the history of mankind. Yet a dispassionate consideration of the known facts fails altogether to justify this demi-god theory of Cæsar. Not even that precipitate wrecker of splendid possibilities, Alexander the Great, has been so magnified and dressed up for the admiration of careless and uncritical readers. - Joachim Nettelbeck
Joachim Nettelbeck - Jane Porter
This engraving represents our accomplished author as a lady of a chapter belonging to a chivalric order. The high compliment from a German court was paid to the merit of Thaddeus of Warsaw. This portrait, as contrasted with that of her sister, well justifies the appellation bestowed upon them by mutual friends - they went by the names of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. - J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie - Invisible man putting on gloves
Invisible man putting on gloves - Ice Hockey
Playing ice hockey - Henry VIII
Henry VIII - Head of Pierre Rene Choudieu
Head of Pierre Rene Choudieu - Hands in pockets
Hands in pockets - Hand with tool
Hand with tool - Hand with scale
Hand with scale - Hand with gloves
Hand with gloves - George Frederick Watts, R. A
George Frederick Watts, R. A - Gentlemen in hats
Gentlemen in hats - Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche - Felix Vallotton
Felix Vallotton - Feet
Feet - Eugène Carrière at work
Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) Caricature of the French painter (whose works are somewhat dark and misty in effect) Eugène Carrière at work. By Guillaume. From the French daily, Gil Blas - Euclid
Euclid - Emperor William II
By one of those accidents in history that personify and precipitate catastrophes, the ruler of Germany, the emperor William II, embodied the new education of his people and the Hohenzollern tradition in the completest form. He came to the throne in 1888 at the age of twenty-nine; his father, Frederick III, had succeeded his grandfather, William I, in the March, to die in the June of that year. William II was the grandson of Queen Victoria on his mother’s side, but his temperament showed no traces of the liberal German tradition that distinguished the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. His head was full of the frothy stuff of the new imperialism. He signalized his accession by an address to his army and navy; his address to his people followed three days later. A high note of contempt for democracy was sounded: “The soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities, have welded together the German Empire. My trust is placed in the army.” So the patient work of the German schoolmasters was disowned, and the Hohenzollern declared himself triumphant. - Domestic scene
Domestic scene