Letting his feet breathe
Walking-shoes should not be worn in the house, neither should the same pair be worn on consecutive days, thus giving them a chance to air. Abraham Lincoln used to slip off his shoes when he had the chance, “ letting his feet breathe,” as he said.
Mrs. William Clark
James, Duke of York
Mayor Rip Van Dam
Ninon de l'Enclos
City Flat-cap worn by 'Bilious' Bale
An Embroidered Jerkin
Lady Anne Clifford
William, Prince of Orange
Robert Devereux
The English Antick
Campaign, Ramillies, Bob, and Pigtail Wigs
The right Honourable Ferdinand--Lord Fairfax
A Puritan Dame
Mr. Alderman Abell and Richard Kilvert, the two maine Projectors for Wine, 1641
Sioux Moccasin2
Figures from Funeral Procession of the Duke of Albemarle, 1670
Apache and Sioux Scalps
Herbert Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford
Sioux Moccasin
General Beauregard raised his glass and surveyed them critically
Pueblo Pottery
Moki Snake Dance
Cromwell dissolving Parliament
Omaha Moccasin
Bell's Telephone in March, 1876
Smoke Signaling
Sir Thomas Orchard, Knight
John Lilburne
Kutchin Moccasin
View of Pueblo
Rattles and Masks
A Woman's Doublet. Mrs. Anne Turner
Estufa at Cochiti, N. M.
Pittsburgh - Burning of the union depot
July 1877 - Part of the Great Railroad strike of 1877 Then they applied the torch to it, and the Union depot blazed up while the firemen looked on, afraid to interfere. It was a fearful spectacle. The Union depot was a large four-story building of brick and stone. It had a frontage on Liberty Street of about seventy feet and extended back about 200 feet. The lower floor was used as a waiting room, ticket offices and the company's offices. The upper floor was occupied by the Keystone Hotel Company, and was one of the best houses in t he city. The whole building was of modern style of architecture, and was considered one of the best arranged depots in the country. In the rear of the depot, and extending back 500 feet, were line of neat pine sheds covering different tracks to protect passengers from the weather. It was under these that the burning car was run.
Curved Stereotype Plate
The Dakota Calendar
Cutaway view of dwelling
Daily life of ordinary people was much different than that of the elite. As far as we know, the former continued to live as they had during the earlier part of the period. They lived in circular houses in small villages located near their gardens and buried their dead in simple graves with few goods.
Yon Hosts Report
Howe's Improved Sewing Machine
Ruined Building at Chichen Itza
Scaffold Burial
Sign Language on the Plains
The Horseshoe Fall from Goat Island
A more correct estimate of the cataract than either of the preceding is that of M. Charlevoix, sent to Madame Maintenon, in 1721. After referring to the inaccurate accounts of Hennepin and La Hontan, he says: "For my own part, after having examined it on all sides, where it could be viewed to the greatest advantage, I am inclined to think we cannot allow it [the height] less than one hundred and forty or fifty feet." As to its figure, "it is in the shape of a horseshoe, and it is about four hundred paces in circumference. It is divided in two exactly in the center by a very narrow island, half a quarter of a league long." In relation to the noise of the falling water, he says: "You can scarce hear it at M. de Joncaire's [Fort Schlosser], and what you hear in this place [Lewiston] may possibly be the whirlpools, caused by the rocks which fill up the bed of the river as far as this."
Lock Stitch (above) and Chain Stitch (below)
Stock Indicator or 'Ticker'
Saddle
Saddle
Hupa Wicker Cradle
Dom Pedro II
The flag still flew above the masthead
Indian Letter on Birch Bark
Ground Plan of Earthworks at Newark, Ohio
Cree Squaw and Papoose
Alexander Graham Bell in 1900
Skin Tents
Ojibwa Gravepost
Cheapside in London
Skin Jacket
Iroquois Moccasin
George Custer
General George Armstrong Custer portrait and signature