EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...
EditorialGenesee Valley Sand Stone Quarry, showing all the opertions of quarrying., 1870, New York (State), Portage (N.Y.), Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.).
EditorialStatue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1802 B.C., From Egypt; Probably originally from Southern Upper Egypt, Elephantine, Sandstone, H. 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.); W. 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); D. 16 cm (6 5/...
EditorialQuarrying Granite for Mormon Temple, 1870/78, William Henry Jackson, American, 1843?1942, United States, Albumen print, stereo, No. 119 from the series "Views in the Rocky Mountains.
EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...
EditorialAlum works. The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series. Richard Jackson: Leeds, 1885. Men quarrying at an alum works. Image taken from The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being facsimiles of original drawings ...
EditorialStatue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1802 B.C., From Egypt; Probably originally from Southern Upper Egypt, Elephantine, Sandstone, H. 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.); W. 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); D. 16 cm (6 5/...
EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...