A short Japanese (miniature style) with slightly curved steel blade, 18 1/2" long, 15/16 wide. Blade groove painted red. 4 1/4" wooden handle covered with snake skin, terminating in a brass plate. Four leaf brass guard with engraved brass plates on...
A Chinese sword, slightly curved, with very sharp single edge blade with wide double bevel, 24 3/4" x 1 3/32". Oval iron guard, 2 7/8" x 2 3/4", pierced in a leaf and tiny flower design, with a few small gilt lines. Wooden handle covered with a...
A photograph of the International Institute of Girls in Barcelona, Spain in 1915. The photograph is taken from high on a ridge, looking down on the valley covered in snow.
The catalog of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for 1899-1900, contains lists of the trustees, teachers, and students by class. It also describes the courses of study and rules and regulations governing the seminary.
This object is a scrapbook of Mount Holyoke student Helen Sanders, which covers the events of her sophomore year (1908-1909) at the college. The thirty-two pages contain ephemera such as dance cards, ticket stubs, package slips, and concert...
Nathaniel Leighton's diary from June to August of 1862 was initially created while he was camped at City Point Landing, VA with the Third Excelsior Brigade. They soon decamped and engaged in battle at White Oak Swamp, VA as part of the Army of the...
This photograph depicts the garden in the corner where the south wall of Abbey Chapel meets the east wall of Mary Lyon Hall. The view is slightly toward the northwest. The garden is covered in deep snow. The sundial can be seen in the background.
Men preparing to cook sheep, leg bone prepared by men for the soup. Given that these photos were taken south of Kazbegi were probably Georgians or South Ossetians both of whom are Orthodox Christian even though the women have their heads covered....
14th century (1300-1399), 15th century (1400 - 1499
June scene from Book of Hours: The Royal Palace and the Sainte Chapelle in background, peasants reaping grain in foreground. , from Les Tres Riches Heures du duc de ~Berri, by Jean and Pol de Limbourg, Musee de...
Sebald Beham, Large Peasant Holiday
From Moxey’s detailed analysis of Beham’s Large Peasant Holiday, and his discussion of related images,which he also reproduces, , pp. 38-:
The surface of Beham’s woodcut, Large Peasant...
Rectangular, pillow-shaped baked clay tablet; covered on all sides except 3 edges with cuneiform inscription. From the Reign Of Darius. Record of legal procedure with list of witnesses
A throng of figures, the bodies of the first tier covered with dark ink, only the heads of the rest are visible, they are highlighted to resemble skulls more than the living.
