- Otaitai, or Porter's Basket
All this time the Otando people were busy making otaitais, or porters' baskets. The otaitai is a very ingenious contrivance for carrying loads in safety on the backs of men. I have brought one of these baskets home, and preserve it as a keepsake. It is long and narrow; the wicker-work is made of strips of a very tough climbing plant; the length is about two and a half feet, and the width nine inches ; the sides are made of open cane-work, capable of being expanded or drawn in, so as to admit of a larger or smaller load. Cords of are attached to the sides, for the purpose of securing the contents. Straps made of strong plaited rushes secure the basket to the head and arms of the carrier, as shown in the picture. - Fall of Table Rock
On the 25th of June, 1850, occurred the great downfall which reduced Table Rock to a narrow bench along the bank. The portion which fell was one immense solid rock two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and one hundred feet deep where it separated from the bank. The noise of the crash was heard like muffled thunder for miles around. Fortunately it fell at noonday, when but few people were out, and no lives were lost. The driver of an omnibus, who had taken off his horses for their midday feed, and was washing his vehicle, felt the preliminary cracking and escaped, the vehicle itself being plunged into the gulf below. - Excited man shouting
Excited man shouting - Men
Men - Gentleman smoking a cigar
Gentleman smoking a cigar - The Bowery night-scene
The Bowery night-scene - Man wringing his hands
Man wringing his hands in anticipation of making some money - Man
Man carrying a top hat - Patronizing stance
Man standing in a patronizing stance - Man smoking a cigar
Man smoking a cigar - Smiling and rubbing his hands
Man smiling and rubbing his hands - Man on the stage
Man on the stage - Man reading on stage
Man reading on stage - Man with money in his hand
Man looking at the money in his hand - Man looking up from his reading and smiling
Man looking up from his reading and smiling - Man shrugging
European man with hat in hand shrugging - A Lady
A Lady - Pleased to meet you
Pleased to meet you, man showing respect when greeting someone - Man walking
Man walking - Unhappy man with cigar
Unhappy man with cigar - Man in pub having a beer
Man in pub having a beer - Bartender looking at beer
Bartender looking at beer - Man cleaning his glasses with a handkerchief
Man cleaning his glasses with a handkerchief - The Butler
- Gentleman explaining
Gentleman explaining - A blacksmith
- How do you do
- Man watching girl aleep in bed
- Man carrying girl downstairs
- Large man looking at the puny chair
- Man in checked pant
- A busboy
- A Lady
- The pawnbroker
- Boy whistling
- Man with hat in his hands
- Man rubbing his hands
- Old Lady
- Man with long beard
Man with long beard - Two gentlemen talking
Two gentlemen talking - Lady in house-robe. Period, 1816
Lady in house-robe. Period, 1816 - Costume for young girl. Period, 1821
Costume for young girl. Period, 1821 - A Dinka Dandy
The portrait represents what might be styled a Dinka dandy, distinguished for unusually long hair. By continual combing and stroking with hair-pins, the hair of the negro loses much of its close curliness. Such was the case here: the hair, six inches long, was trained up into points like tongues of flame, and these, standing stiffly up all round his head, gave the man a fiendish look, which was still further increased by its being dyed a foxy red. This tint is the result of continual washing with cow-urine; a similar effect can be produced by the application for a fortnight of a mixture of dung and ashes. - The Old Shol
Shol One of the most influential personages of the neighbouring race of the Lao was a woman, already advanced in years, of the name of Shol. She played an important part as a sort of chief of the Meshera, her riches, according to the old patriarchal fashion, consisting of cattle. As wealthy as cattle copuld make her, she would long since have been a prey to the Nubians, who carry on their ravages principally in those regions, if it had not chanced that the intruders needed her for a friend. They required a convenient and secure landing-place, and the paramount necessity of having this induced them to consider plunder a secondary matter. Shol, on her part, uses all her influence to retain her tribe on friendly terms with the strangers. The smallest conflict might involve the entire loss of her property. - A Niam-niam minstrel
A Niam-niam minstrel As the darkness came on. our camp was enlivened by the appearance of the grotesque figure of a singer, who came with a huge bunch of feathers in his hat, and these, as he wagged his head to the time of his music, became all entangled with the braids of his hair. Altogether the head was like the head of Medusa. These "minne-singers" among the Niam-niam as known as "nzangah." They are as sparing of their voices as a worn-out prima donna; except for those close by, it is impossible to hear what they are singing. Their instrument is the local guitar, the thin jingling of which accords perfectly well with the nasal humming of the minstrel's recitative. The occupation of these nzangah, however, notwithstanding the general love of the people for music, would not appear to be held in very high esteem, as the same designation is applied to those unfortunate women, friendless and fallen, who are never absent from any community. - View of Baltimore, from Federal Hill
- University of Toronto, Canada
- Tabernacle and Temple, Salt Lake City
- State, War and Navy Departments, Washington, D. C.
- State Street and Capitol, Albany, N. Y.
- Soldiers' Monument at Buffalo, N. Y
- Seal Rocks from the Cliff House, near San Francisco
- Public Square and Perry Monument, Cleveland, Ohio
- Pittsburg and its Rivers
- Old Independence Hall, Philadelphia
- Night Scene in Market Square, Portland, Maine
- New York and Brooklyn Bridge
- Masonic Temple, Philadelphia
- Mardi Gras Festival, New Orleans
- Levee and Great Bridge at St. Louis