- Faroese bird cliffs
- Thor in Torshavn
- Iceland's only lighthouse
- The Last Days of the 'Swan with Two Necks'
The “Swan with Two Necks,” whence many coaches set out, until the end of such things, was often known by waggish people as the “Wonderful Bird,” and obtained its name from a perversion of the “Swan with Two Nicks”: swans that swam the upper Thames and were the property of the Vintners’ Company being marked on their bills with two nicks, for identification. Lad Lane is now “Gresham Street,” but, apart from its mere name, is a lane still; but the old buildings of the “Swan with Two Necks” were pulled down in 1856. - Icelandic peasant girl in national costume
- The Queen Visiting a Cornish Iron Mine
- Roman Bath in the Strand
- Tribal Gods of the 19th Century
Throughout the nineteenth century, and particularly throughout its latter half, there has been a great working up of this nationalism in the world. All men are by nature partisans and patriots, but the natural tribalism of men in the nineteenth century was unnaturally exaggerated, it was fretted and over-stimulated and inflamed and forced into the nationalist mould. Nationalism was taught in schools, emphasized by newspapers, preached and mocked and sung into men. Men were brought to feel that they were as improper without a nationality as without their clothes in a crowded assembly. - Ancient Alehouse
- Headware Fourteenth century
- The Strand
- Fifteenth century, 2nd half
- Went over bank and hedge
- Fourteenth century
- Where the Poor Live
The presence of aliens and their competition also lowers the already sufficiently low rate of wages. Houses, therefore, in these localities—once tenanted by a single family—are let off at exorbitant rates to as many as can be crammed into them. Lucky, indeed, is the married labourer who can anywhere secure a single room for{281} 4s. to 6s. a week. And such a room! No means of preparing a real meal, the family fare generally consisting of tea, “two-eyed steaks” (herrings), and a “couple of doorsteps” (two slices of bread) per head. - Leiden, Rhijnland (dated 1612)
Leiden, Rhijnland (dated 1612) - Norman and Saxon Costume - 12th Century
- Types of Shoes - British, Roman, Norman to 13th century
- Costumes, 1568-1610
- Female Costume - Fifteenth century, 1st half
- Rue des Chantres -b
- View from the Eagle's Nest to the south (2)
- Twelfth to thirteenth century
- Rowing grip
Top - Wrong grip Bottom - correct grip After the pose, the student should learn to hold his belt. Inadvertently when rowing to apply some force, he will tighten his belt tightly, even pinch it. Now this is nothing but a waste of forces, because it makes the muscles, namely those of the lower arm, tense and tired, without obtaining any greater result. The hands should only serve as a means of connecting the strap to the body; so the looser the belt is held, the better, and to that end only the two extremities of the fingers are bent, as a result of which a hook is formed, as it were, which wraps around the belt; (bottom picture) the thumb is held under the belt and also only with the extreme member pressed against it. The wrist joints should absolutely not be bent downwards, because this is precisely what makes the muscles of the lower arm tense, which is of no use and should therefore be strictly forbidden. After all, the aim must be not to exert a muscle without obtaining any result proportional to the effort. The hand must therefore be held in such a way that it forms a straight line with the arm. - Folding cap catch
- The Vestmanna Islands and the Eyafjallajökull near Sunset
- Icelandic farm
- The Cafe Royal
- A Group of Lapps
In the northmost part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Finland live the Lapps. There are probably not more than ten or twelve thousand, all told. They have had much contact with the Finns, and speak a language related to Finnish. In many customs they resemble them. This is not strange, as the land they live in is much the same. - Teagle elevator in an English mill about 1845
- Twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- Ailantus and Cannas
Suggesting the effects to be obtained from young and vigorous specimens of hardy fine-leaved trees. - Uphill and downhill
- Caps - Saxon and Norman types
- Partie de la Cité vers la Fin du XVIIᵉ Siècle
- An Ale-stake
- Charles Dickens Chair and desk
Charles Dickens Chair and desk - St. Paul’s Cathedral
- Prospect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724
Prospect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724 This demonstrates that Wansdike was made before the Roman Road. - Female Elizabethan modes
- The Roadside Inn
- Rue des Toiles à Bourges
- “Ye Olde Rover’s Return,” Manchester
The tottering, crazy-looking tavern called “Ye Olde Rover’s Return,” on Shude Hill, claiming to be the “oldest beer-house in the city,” and additionally said once to have been an old farmhouse “where the Cow was kept that supplied Milk to The Men who built the ‘Seven Stars" - Hard work in the drift ice
- A Cell in the Lollards’ Tower
- Half the expedition in her sleeping bag
- Groningen (1509)
Groningen (1509) - Rue Pirouette aux Halles (D.49), third state
- We sail on the last day of our sea voyage. August 10
- Westminster
- The Palace at Greenwich
- Great Seal of William II (William Rufus)
Great Seal of King William II., 1087-1100. From an impression preserved at Durham. The hauberk appears to be of chain-mail, though expressed in a somewhat different manner from the seal of William the Conqueror, and from others which will follow. The conical helmet seems to have had a nasal. The spur is of the goad form. If the leg has had armour, the marks of it have been obliterated by the softening of the wax. The king is armed with lance, sword, and kite-shield. - The Palace of Greenwich, from the Observatory Hill, with the Spire of St. Paul’s in the Distance
- At The Café Aphrodite
At The Café Aphrodite - Hannah Snell
Who took upon herself the Name of James Gray; and, being deserted by her Husband, put on Mens Apparel, and travelled to Coventry in quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. Guise’s Regiment of Foot, and marched with that Regiment to Carlisle, in the Time of the Rebellion in Scotland; shewing what happened to her in that City, and her Desertion from that Regiment. - Canna
The most important and generally useful of tender plants for our climate.[England] Many kinds are hardy if protected in winter. - Reaper in Gaul (70 AD)
The accompanying cut is a good restoration of the Gallic harvester of Pliny's day. Palladius wrote the De re Rustica in the fourth century A. D. and gives a good description of this contrivance, which was similar to our "heading-machines," having a row of sharp teeth at the front edge, between which the straw passed, the head being torn off at the angle where the teeth met, and falling into the box of the machine. The description of Palladius is as follows: —" In the plains of Gaul, they use this quick way of reaping, and without reapers cut large fields with an ox in one day. For this purpose a machine is made, carried upon two wheels; the square surface has boards erected at the side, which sloping outward, make a wider space above; the board on the fore part is lower than the others; upon it there are a great many small teeth, wide set in a row, answering to the hight of the can of the corn, and turned upward at the ends; on the back part of this machine two short shafts are fixed, like the poles of a litter; to these an ox is yoked with his head to the machine, and the yoke and traces likewise turned the contrary way: he is well trained, and does not go faster than he is driven. When this machine is pushed through the standing corn, all the ears are comprehended by the teeth, and heaped up in the hollow part of it, being cut off from the straw, which is left behind; the driver setting it higher or lower, as he finds it necessary; and thus, by a few goings and returnings, the whole field is reaped. This machine does very well in plain and smooth fields, and in places where there is no necessity for feeding with straw." - Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine
- Visit to an Eskimo tent on Cape Bille
- Newbridge, County Dublin