EditorialForm - 'Claim for War Pension', World War I, 1917, Grey form printed in black, of several pages. To be completed by a dependent (including a wife or widow) over the age of 16 who had been bereaved by war. It has been stamped 'Melbourne'. The form reque...
EditorialAllegory of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands Title page for Fran?ois Halma and Matthaeus Brouerius van Nidek, Tooneel of the United Netherlands and its subordinate landscapes, 1725 Francois Halma's Stage of the United Netherlands and its de...
EditorialFemale Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established the...
EditorialHarpoon Counterweight, 10th century, United States, Alaska, Punuk, Ivory (walrus), H. 3 x W. 3 1/16 in. (7.6 x 7.7 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the ...
EditorialHead, 2nd?4th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/4 in., Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pacific Ocea...
EditorialHarpoon Head, 4th?5th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), L. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pa...
EditorialOrnament, 4th century (?), United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/16 in. (6.4 x 3 cm), Bone/Ivory-Ornaments, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the ...
EditorialLetter written in hieratic script on papyrus, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1458 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut, In rubbish near foundation deposit 9, 1926?27, Papyrus, ink, L. 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in); w. 4.5 ...
EditorialStanding Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the r...
EditorialStanding Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. 7th century, Vietnam or Cambodia, Gilt bronze, H. 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm), Sculpture, This very rare and extraordinary bronze sculpture, found in Vietnam, is strongly dependent stylisti...
EditorialNavy Marine Corps hat, 1817, Black leather headgear with one side stored. Attached to this a flat fire-gilt knot with anchor (so-called 'ready' anchor), yellow iris, orange leather cockade. Dependent horsehair red feather. The brim of the hat is border...
EditorialCarte la plus-nouvelle & plus-exacte du Royaume de Perse avec ses C?tes, Villes Maritimes, tous les Pays qui en dependent, & ses Lieux circonvoisins, Map of the 18th century Kingdom of Persia, signed: Corrig?e de nouveau et augment?e suivant les Relati...
EditorialCygnus atratus, Print, The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon cl...
EditorialBacillus, Print, Bacillus (Latin "stick") is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum Firmicutes, with 266 named species. The term is also used to describe the shape (rod) of certain bacteria; and the plural Bacilli is the ...
EditorialCygnus atratus, Print, The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon cl...
EditorialAra ambiguus, Print, The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is a Central and South American parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. This species lives in th...
EditorialJo Lehman, a 7 year old newsboy. 824 Third Ave., N. Y. City. He was selling in this Saloon. I asked him about the badge he was wearing. "Oh! Dat's me bruder's, " he said. Location: New York, New York.
EditorialJo Lehman, a 7 year old newsboy. 824 Third Ave., N. Y. City. He was selling in this Saloon. I asked him about the badge he was wearing. "Oh! Dat's me bruder's, " he said. Location: New York, New York.
EditorialFemale Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established the...
EditorialHarpoon Counterweight, 10th century, United States, Alaska, Punuk, Ivory (walrus), H. 3 x W. 3 1/16 in. (7.6 x 7.7 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the ...
EditorialHead, 2nd?4th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/4 in., Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pacific Ocea...
EditorialThree National Child Labor Committee Exhibition Panels, 1913?14, Gelatin silver print, 8.9 x 15.0 cm (3 1/2 x 5 15/16 in.), Photographs, Lewis Hine (American, 1874?1940), Trained as a sociologist at Columbia University, Lewis Hine gave up his New York ...
EditorialHarpoon Head, 4th?5th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), L. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pa...
EditorialOrnament, 4th century (?), United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/16 in. (6.4 x 3 cm), Bone/Ivory-Ornaments, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the ...
EditorialLetter written in hieratic script on papyrus, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1458 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut, In rubbish near foundation deposit 9, 1926?27, Papyrus, ink, L. 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in); w. 4.5 ...
EditorialStanding Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the r...
EditorialStanding Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. 7th century, Vietnam or Cambodia, Gilt bronze, H. 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm), Sculpture, This very rare and extraordinary bronze sculpture, found in Vietnam, is strongly dependent stylisti...
EditorialA boy in dragoon uniform scrabbles for sweets under his father's legs, while a baby plays with a puppet on his mother's lap. A black servant boy prays for a gift at left. "Children, adolescents, girls of 15 and 16, servants and poor wretches, all show ...
EditorialMan of Katsina (Nigeria), man of Jakoba kingdom (Hausa dependent), woman of Lussi region (Chad), man of Dombu city (Sierra Leone) and Felatah man of the Jarriba kingdom. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergal...