Am I not a man, and a brother
On the 2nd and 16th of October 1837 two sittings took place; at the latter of which a sub-committee, which had been appointed for the purpose, brought in a design for a seal. An African was seen, in chains, in a supplicating posture, kneeling with one knee upon the ground, and with both his hands lifted up to heaven, and round the seal was observed the following motto, as if he was uttering the words himself,—"Am I not a Man and a Brother?" The design having been approved of, a seal was ordered to be engraved from it. This seal, simple as the design was, was made to contribute largely towards turning the attention of our countrymen to the case of the injured Africans, and of procuring a warm interest in their favour.
Thumb Screw
The thumbs are put into this instrument through the two circular holes at the top of it. By turning a key, a bar rises up by means of a screw from C to D, and the pressure upon them becomes painful. By turning it further you may make the blood start from the ends of them. By taking the key away, as at E, you leave the tortured person in agony, without any means of extricating himself, or of being extricated by others. This screw, as I was then informed, was applied by way of punishment, in case of obstinacy in the slaves, or for any other reputed offence, at the discretion of the captain.
Speculum Oris
The dotted lines in the figure on the right hand of the screw represent it when shut, the black lines when open. It is opened, as at G H, by a screw below with a nob at the end of it. This instrument is known among surgeons, having been invented to assist them in wrenching open the mouth as in the case of a locked jaw; but it had got into use in this trade. On asking the seller of the instruments on what occasion it was used there, he replied that the slaves were frequently so sulky as to shut their mouths against all sustenance, and this with a determination to die; and that it was necessary their mouths should be forced open to throw in nutriment, that they who had purchased them might incur no loss by their death.
Shackles for the legs
Hand-Cuffs
A pair of the iron hand-cuffs with which the men-slaves are confined. The right-hand wrist of one, and the left of another, are almost brought into contact by these, and fastened together, by a little bolt with a small padlock at the end of it.
Farming instruction book 1601
Farming instruction book 1601
Trenching Implements 17th Century
Trenching Implements 17th Century
Seventeenth Century Plows
Seventeenth Century Plows
Women’s Head-dress
Women’s Head-dress
Vase-painting—Ionic Dress
Vase-painting—Ionic Dress
Vase-painting—Dress with two Overfold
Vase-painting—Dress with two Overfold
Vase-painting
Vase-painting
Vase-painting in the Polygnotan Style
Vase-painting in the Polygnotan Style
Vase-painting from Lucania
Vase-painting from Lucania
Vase-painting by Hieron
Vase-painting by Hieron
Vase-painting by Falerii
Vase-painting by Falerii
Vase-painting by Euxitheos
Vase-painting by Euxitheos
Vase-painting by Euphronios
Vase-painting by Euphronios
Vase-painting by Brygos
Vase-painting by Brygos
The Doric Himation
The Doric Himation
The Chlamys and Petasos
The Chlamys and Petasos
Snake Goddess and Votary
The snake goddess and her votary from Knossos have, in addition, a kind of apron reaching almost to the knees in front and behind, and rising to the hips at the sides. The costume is completed by the addition of a high hat or turban. Looking at the snake goddess more in detail, we find that the jacket is cut away into a V-shape from the neck to the waist, leaving both the breasts quite bare; the two edges are laced across below the breast, the laces being fastened in a series of bows. The jacket is covered with an elaborate volute pattern, the apron with spots and bordered with a “guilloche.”
Men’s Head-dress—Archaic
Men’s Head-dress—Archaic
From the François Vase
From the François Vase
Heading Frame
Heading Frame
Man with flag
Soldier with bayonet and flag
Man in buckskin
Man in buckskin - dawn by Frederick Remington
Man in buckskin
Man in buckskin - dawn by Frederick Remington
Lion Divider
Lion Divider
Lady Divider
Lady Divider
Young Lady writing
Young Lady writing
Writer divider
Writer divider
Peasant Woman and Churn
Peasant Woman and Churn
Nature Divider
Nature Divider
Frame
Text Frame
Frame with laughing masks
Text Frame
Divider
Divider
90 degrees in the shade
Man wheeling a small girl in a wheelbarrow
Get Up!
Man laying in bed with someone (his conscience) encouraging him to get up
Good Joke
A group of men in a tavern enjoying a good joke
Boy discussing two women
Boy telling his friend to respect his mother
A windy day
Small girl waiting for old lady on a windy day.
Divider
Celtic style Divider
Man in swimsuit
Man dripping-wet
Man and Woman
Upper class man and his wife
Man and Woman
Young lady talking to man with monocle on a sofa
Lower New York
Lower New York from the harbour
Romain Rolland
Jean-Christophe, the dominant figure of the enormous work which Rolland was a score of years in writing, and nearly half a score in publishing, is gradually becoming a household name upon two continents. “Jean-Christophe” is the detailed life of a man from the cradle to the grave, a prose epic of suffering, a narrative of the evolution of musical genius, a pæan to music, and a critique of composers, the history of an epoch, a comparative study of the civilizations of France and Germany, an arraignment of society, a discussion of vexed problems, a treatise on ethics, a “barrel” of sermons, a storehouse of dissertations, and a blaze of aspirations.
XP
Constantine the Great, founder of Constantinople, had the monogram of Christ placed on the labarum, or imperial stamdard; It was the Greek letter X (chi) with a P (rbo) placed perpendicularly though it, forming the first two letters of the name Christ, in Greek
IHS
From Pugin's "Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament"
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Of all the officers who have commanded the army and enjoyed the presidency, Santa Anna has occupied the most distinguished position since the death of Iturbidé.
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 9th May 1846
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 9th May 1846
Battle of Palo Alto 8th. May 1846
Battle of Palo Alto 8th. May 1846
Spiderweb
The simple nests and tubes that have been described are made by spiders, most of which spin no other webs. The larger and better known cobwebs for catching insects are made by comparatively few species. On damp mornings in summer the grass-fields are seen to be half covered with flat webs, from an inch or two to a foot in diameter, which are considered by the weatherwise as signs of a fair day. These webs remain on the grass all the time, but only become visible from a distance when the dew settles on them. Figure is a diagram of one of these nests, supposed, for convenience, to be spun between pegs instead of grass. The flat part consists of strong threads from peg to peg, crossed by finer ones, which the spider spins with the long hind-spinnerets
Agalenidæ
Long-legged, brown spiders, with two spinnerets longer than the others, and extending out behind the body. Figure is Agalena nævia, the common grass spider. They make flat webs, with a funnel-shaped tube at one side, in which the spider waits.
Drassidæ
A large family of spiders, varying greatly in shape, color, and habits. Most of them are dull colored, and live under stones, or in silk tubes on plants, and make no webs for catching insects. Their eyes are small, and arranged in two rows on the front of the head. Their feet have two claws and a bunch of flat hairs. The spinnerets are usually long enough to extend a little behind the abdomen. The figure is a Drassus, and the eyes as seen from in front.
Breguet’S Tourbillon
At C is shown the carriage which revolves with pinion B carrying the escapement and balance around the stationary wheel G. (After G. A. Baillie, Watches, their history, decoration, and mechanism, London, Methuen, n.d.)
Drawing from U. S. Patent
Drawing from U. S. Patent 165831, showing Hopkins’ first design improvement, an arbor for the barrel and train to turn on and the balance displaced from center.
Part of the Drawings from U. S. Patent 186838
showing the winding and setting mechanism very nearly as it was applied in the Auburndale rotary.
Patent Drawing of the Hopkins Watch
The mainspring barrel E, of a very large diameter in proportion to the diameter of the watch, occupies nearly the full diameter of the movement. The spring itself, narrower and much longer than usual, is made in the patent model by riveting two ordinary springs together end to end. Over this barrel and attached to the stationary frame of the watch is placed a large thin ring A, cut on its inner diameter with 120 teeth. Near its edge the barrel E carries a stud g on which runs a pinion of 10 in mesh with the ring gear A. On this pinion is a wheel of 80 driving a pinion of 6 on the escape-wheel arbor. The 15-tooth escape wheel locks on a spring detent and gives impulse to the balance in one direction only, being a conventional chronometer escapement. The intermediate wheel and pinion, balance wheel, and balance cock have been adapted from a Swiss bar movement of the time.