EditorialLace maternity beater Image of a maternity beater (title on object), A lace maternity beater. Used around 1750 in Haarlem to hang on the door under the door knocker to soften the sound of the knocker and to indicate that a child was born in the house. ...
EditorialChartres, 1850?52, Salted paper print from paper negative, Sheet: 10 13/16 ? 8 1/2 in. (27.4 ? 21.6 cm), Photographs, Pierre Emile Joseph P?carr?re (French, born 1816), This idiosyncratic view of the thirteenth-century figures on the south porch of Cha...