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Jacob Emerick's Wholesale and Retail China, Glass, and Queensware. Number...
This advertisement from 1846 shows a three-and-one-half story storefront, located at 215 [349] North Third Street in Philadelphia, tenanted by the firm of Jacob Emerick from 1837 to 1874. Inside the...
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J. and J. Reakirt, Wholesale Drug Warehouse: Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, and...
This advertising print from 1846 shows the three-and-one-half story building of J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists located in the 200 block of Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Signs advertise...
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Dickson and Company. Watches, Fine Cutlery, Jewelry
This print from around 1840 is an advertisement for Dickson & Company, located at 14 North Fifth Street (on the corner of Commerce Street and between Market and Arch Streets) in Philadelphia. A...
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Rowing on the Schuylkill River
This print shows two sculling barges on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Each barge has a crew of eight and a coxswain. In the background are Peter's Island and the Columbia Railroad Bridge. A...
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A View of the Fairmount Water Works with Schuylkill in the Distance. Taken...
This hand-colored lithograph from around 1838 shows a view looking northwest from the Fairmount neighborhood in Philadelphia; it prominently features the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River,...
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Ritter Cotterell and Ritter, Wholesale Drug and Chemical Warehouse. Paints,...
This advertisement from 1846 shows the four-story storefront of the wholesale drug and chemical warehouse for the firm Ritter Cotterell & Ritter, located on the 100 block of North Third Street in...
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Armorial of Cornelis van Aeken, or Beyeren Armorial
The Beyeren Armorial, also known as the Armorial of Cornelis van Aeken, was compiled by Claes Heynenzoon (also known as the Gelre Herald, circa 1345−1414), who was Ruwieren King of Arms, the chief...
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The Flower of Nature
Jacob van Maerlant (circa 1235−1300) was arguably the most important Dutch poet of the 13th century. He produced a verse translation of the Bible (the Rijmbijbel) and an adaptation, Spiegel...
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Book of Hours of Simon de Varie. Part 1
Books of hours are prayer books for the personal use of laymen, often beautifully illuminated, dating from the late-medieval period. The National Library of the Netherlands has a large collection of...
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Book of Hours of Simon de Varie. Part 2
Books of hours are prayer books for the personal use of laymen, often beautifully illuminated, dating from the late-medieval period. The National Library of the Netherlands has a large collection of...
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Quadruple Spectacle of Wonders
Admirandorum Quadruplex Spectaculum (Quadruple spectacle of wonders) is a book of cityscapes and landscapes by Jan van Call (1656−1703), an engraver and draftsman from the Dutch city of Nijmegen....
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The Album Amicorum of Jacob Heyblocq
In the days of Jacob Heyblocq (1623−90), friendship books (referred to by their Latin name, alba amicorum) were popular among students who traveled from university to university. Traveling scholars...
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Adriaen Coenen’s “Fish Book”
In 1577, at the age of 63, Adriaen Coenen, from the Dutch fishing port of Scheveningen, started his Visboek (Fish book). Over a period of three years he collected all kinds of information about the...
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A.B.C. For Soldiers on Leave
A.B.C. For Soldiers on Leave was written by Max Lowland (pseudonym for Max Schuchart, 1920−2005) and illustrated by Jos Ruting (pseudonym for Josef Bernard, 1908−87) as a humorous guide for Allied...
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Trivulzio Book of Hours
The Trivulzio Book of Hours is one of the most important, and certainly the most costly, gifts ever presented to a Dutch cultural institution. Given in 2001 by a donor who wished to remain anonymous,...
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The Congress of Berlin, 1878
In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background...
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China
In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background...
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Shahnameh
This copy of the Shahnameh (Book of kings) was published by subscription in Bombay in 1906 by the Indian Parsi community. The Shahnameh is a Persian epic poem of more than 50,000 couplets that...
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Utterances
The 14th-century Turkic-Mongol ruler Timur (Tamerlane) wrote a memoir in Chagatai Turkish, the original of which is now lost. The work was intended as a book of advice for princes and rulers and has...
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The Ocean of Rewards
Kitāb-i baḥr al-favāʼid (The ocean of rewards) is a literary-historical work written in a mixture of prose and verse styles and published in a lithographic version in Mashhad, Iran, in 1906. It...
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