EditorialCrucifixion of convicts outside the city wall d'Aal-old Cross-punishments of the Romans: by Constantyn the Great, out of respect for the Cross of the Saligmakers, abolished (title on object) ), Numbered top right: 714, violent death by crucifixion, Jan...
EditorialSaber of the Gardes du Corps of the governor 1794, Saber of the Gardes du Corps of the governor 1794. Last model, executed as a pallas (straight blade) of the sabers of the mounted squadron of the Gardes du Corps (bodyguard of the stadholder). Brass hi...
EditorialThe machine abolished and the people restored to power by the organization of all the people on the lines of party organization : Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1822-1899.
EditorialThe Machine abolished; and the people restored to power, by the organization of all the people on the lines of party organization : Clark, Charles C. P. (Charles Cotesworth Pinckney), 1822-1899.
EditorialThe Jewish Woman of Algiers, 1862, French, Paris, Red and white marble pedestal with gilt-bronze mounts and ornaments, Pedestal (confirmed): H. 41 3/8 x W. 18 1/4 x D. 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 in., 551.2lb. (105.1 x 46.4 x 46.4 x 29.8 cm, 250kg), Sculpture, Cha...
EditorialBarghash bin Said of Zanzibar (1837-1888). Sultan of Zanzibar (1870-1888). During his reign the slave trade in Zanzibar was abolished. Drawing by Etienne Ronjat (1822-1912). Engraving by Hildibrand. Africa inexplorada, el Continente Misterioso by Henry...
EditorialSpain, Basque Country, Biscay, Bilbao. Session of the Juntas Generales de Vizcaya (Foral Parliament of Biscay). Sessions were held, for the first time, in the assembly hall of the Institute in Bilbao. The act was presided by a portrait of King Alfonso ...
EditorialThe end of the occupaton: On the 1000 m high Semmering Pass in the Austrian Alps, the Russians lifted military control on the demarkation line separating the Soviet Occupation Zone from the British zone of Austria. Similarly, on the border of the US an...
Editorial'To Jesus consecrated, humbly rise'. From the poem: 'Africa delivered; or the slave trade abolished. A poem'. By James Grahame. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; written Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; written by James Montgomery, J...
Editorial'The mother strains her infant to her breast'. From the poem: Africa delivered; or the slave trade abolished. A poem'. By James Grahame. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; written Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; written by James Mont...
EditorialA racist parody of Othello (one of several) which appeared in the decades before slavery was abolished. Othello-Travestie ... Second edition. [The author's preface signed: Ibef. With a frontispiece.]. Dublin : John Kempston, 1813. Source: 2300.b.11.(1....
Editorial'Contagion speads apace from man to man'. From the poem : 'Africa delivered; or the slave trade abolished. A poem'. By James Grahame. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; written by James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Embellished with...
EditorialMr Churchill's escape. The Morning Post. 28th December 1899. Reports on the progress of the Boer war, including an article on the escape of Winston Churchill. Also an article entitled : 'old age abolished'. Image taken from The Morning Post. Original...
Editorial" Les duels abolis" -Duels abolished. From the monument to the deeds of Louis XIV on the Place de la Victoire, Paris, destroyed in 1792 Bronze, LP 571.
EditorialThe Jewish Woman of Algiers, 1862, French, Paris, Red and white marble pedestal with gilt-bronze mounts and ornaments, Pedestal (confirmed): H. 41 3/8 x W. 18 1/4 x D. 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 in., 551.2lb. (105.1 x 46.4 x 46.4 x 29.8 cm, 250kg), Sculpture, Cha...
EditorialThe end of the occupaton: On the 1000 m high Semmering Pass in the Austrian Alps, the Russians lifted military control on the demarkation line separating the Soviet Occupation Zone from the British zone of Austria. Similarly, on the border of the US an...
Editorial" Les duels abolis" -Duels abolished. From the monument to the deeds of Louis XIV on the Place de la Victoire, Paris, destroyed in 1792 Bronze, LP 571.