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- 'Sans nom ' at the Race of June 8, 1884, near Leiden.
In 1884, the competition again took place in Oudshoorn. The board had now decided to add races for two-belt seniores and for junior four-belt and two-belt races for the sake of the public. The song " Oude vier ", however, remained the main song, the university race . The prize was once again won by Leiden, which reached the winning post 4 seconds before Utrecht and 36 seconds before Delft . - 10th century castle, on its mound, with a wooden palisade enclosure
- 1585 - 1620
- 1725-1750
- 1828-1836
- 1830-1840
- 1840-1860
- 1845 - 1855
- A Bishop
- A domed church
- A Family Wash
A Gypsy family washing in the river - A Group of Lapps
In the northmost part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Finland live the Lapps. There are probably not more than ten or twelve thousand, all told. They have had much contact with the Finns, and speak a language related to Finnish. In many customs they resemble them. This is not strange, as the land they live in is much the same. - A Gypsy Girl
A gypsy girl lights a gypsy mans cigarette - A Haymaker
A Haymaker - A home among the mountains—Lucerne
- A Hungarian Ferry
A Hungarian Ferry - A juggler, after a miniature
- A Little Girl of Hainburg
A Little Girl of Hainburg - According to Viollet-le-Duc
- An 11th century knight, after the Bayeux tapestry
- An Ark-boat
An Ark-boat - An attempt to restore the Krak, according to M. Rey
- Anglo-Norman knight, after a tomb from 1277
- At The Café Aphrodite
At The Café Aphrodite - Ball Costume 1825
Ball Costume 1825 - Basque Cart
The Basques, especially those living in the mountains, are proud, happy, and independent. They are easily angered and quick to fight. They love their old life and customs and dislike changes. They still use many old-fashioned things such as the clumsy ox-cart, with great, solid wooden wheels and heavy wooden axle. The old dress has disappeared in many places, but is picturesque. Men wear rather loose and baggy trousers, a close-fitting vest, a sort of blouse or jacket that reaches only to the waist, a wide, white collar turned down over the neck of the blouse, and a loose necktie with streaming ends. They wear a loose cap jauntily on the head. Men and women both delight in bright colors. - Beckoned silently to the rest to follow him
For some time this secret practising continued without arousing suspicion on the part of the other inmates of the house. One night, however, when the child had resorted to his favourite spot, he was suddenly missed by those below, and, as it was known that he had been sent to bed, some fears were felt as to what could have become of him. The servants were summoned, but could give no account of him; the father was fetched from his study, whither he had retired, and a search began. The alarm increased when it was ascertained that the child was in none of the living-rooms of the house, and it was decided that the garrets and lofts must be searched. Calling for a lantern, the surgeon ascended the stairs leading to the lumber-room; it was possible that the boy might have found his way thither on some childish expedition, and there fallen asleep. Great was the father's surprise, on reaching the top-most landing, to hear faint musical sounds proceeding from behind the closed door. Noiselessly retracing his steps, he summoned the rest of the household, and then, ascending the stairs in a body, they paused outside to listen. Sure enough the old garret was full of melodic sounds! Now near, now far off, they seemed to the listeners to be wafted from another world; there was something uncanny about it, and the maids gazed into each other's faces with a scared expression, as the master softly lifted the latch, and, having peeped [41]into the room, beckoned silently to the rest to follow him. - Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven - Black Forest Cow Team
Black Forest Cow Team - Boats made from Shoes, Holland
A crowd of boys running in such shoes [wooden] over the hard paved roads makes a great clattering. On Sunday the wooden shoes of men and boys are usually fresh whitened; if their owners enter a house, they leave the shoes outside the door. I am sure you cannot guess what little Dutch boys do with old wooden shoes. They make capital little fishing boats out of them, which they sail on the canal. The real big fishing boats are really shaped very much like shoes too. - Bodice types. 1700-1725
- Bodice types. Period 1690-1720
- Boot shapes. Charles I to 1700
- Building a House in Servia
Black Forest Cow Team - Bulgarian Bozaji, Belgrade
Even the hissing of frying fat in the numerous cook-shops seemed hushed for the time; the vender of kukurutz (green corn on the ear) slept in a shadow; and the Bulgarian bozaji, selling slightly fermented maize beer, alone broke the drowsy silence with his mournful cries. - Bulgarian Buffalo Cart
Bulgarian Buffalo Cart - Bulgarian Fisherman Basket-making
Bulgarian Fisherman Basket-making - By the light of the moon he began his task
Bach copying from his brothers book which he 'borrowed' Then, taking his pen and some manuscript music-paper with which he had provided himself, he began his task of copying out the pieces contained in the book. An hour or more slipped away in this absorbing occupation, and it was not until the moon had shifted her position, so that her rays no longer afforded the necessary light, that Sebastian ceased to ply his pen. Then, having hidden the book away and removed all traces of his work, the now wearied little musician sought his pillow and fell fast asleep. - Byzantine enamels from the Limburg reliquary
- Cap shapes. Period Henry VIII
- Caps - Saxon and Norman types
- Caucasian Types
But it is this study of skull shapes which has led many ethnologists to divide the Caucasian race, not, as it was divided by Huxley, into two, the northern blonds and the Mediterranean and North African dark whites or brunets, but into three. They split his blonds into two classes. They distinguish a northern European type, blond and dolichocephalic, the Nordic; a Mediterranean or Iberian race, Huxley’s dark whites, which is dark-haired and dolichocephalic, and between these two they descry this third race, their brachycephalic race, the Alpine race. The opposite school would treat the alleged Alpine race simply as a number of local brachycephalic varieties of Nordic or Iberian peoples. The Iberian peoples were the Neolithic people of the long barrows, and seem at first to have pervaded most of Europe and western Asia. - Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century
Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century, taken from a Miniature of that period (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris). The chairs or seats of the Romanesque period exhibit an attempt to revive in the interior of the buildings, where they were used, the architectural style of contemporary monuments. They were large and massive, and were raised on clusters of columns expanding at the back in three semicircular rows. - Charles I
- Christoph seized the manuscript book and the copy
With his mouth curved into a cruel smile, Christoph seized the manuscript book and the copy, and, taking them from the room, hid them away in a [11]new place where Sebastian could not possibly find them - Citizen of Early tudor or Louis XI Period
Citizen of Early tudor or Louis XI Period - Citizens Dress of 1545
Citizens Dress of 1545 - Collar and Bodice types. Period Charles I
- Collar and Bodice types. Period Charles I to 1660
- Costume - Fifteenth century, 1st half
- Costume - Fifteenth century
- Costume notes, 1770-1780
- Costume notes, 1790-1800
- Costume notes, 1811-1812
- Costume notes, 1814-1816
- Costume notes. Period 1670-1690
- Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII
Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII - Costume type. 1695-1710
- Costume types. Period Charles II
- Costumes Fifteenth century, 2nd half