A photograph of students at the Fiske Seminary in Iran, ca. 1912. Note on back and depicted on the second image, says "For a time most of these Jewish girls attended the Seminary. Now they have a school in the Jewish quarter. The teachers furnished...
A photograph of the bridge over Stony Brook, part of Lower Lake. Several row boats are visible in the distance on the water. Image is mounted on an embossed photographer's card with business details: Hearn Davis Studio 288 Boylston St. Boston....
A photograph taken outdoors of faculty and/or trustees in academic robes, in procession before a line of female students, all wearing light-colored dresses. At the head of the faculty line are Helen May Cady, associate professor of English...
A photograph of Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, class of 1920, discoverers of the first anti-fungal antibiotic, Nystatin. Documentation stored with this image reads: “Chemical pioneers Brown and Hazen: Elizabeth Hazen (left) and Rachel...
The cover of the German children’s book "Der Automobil Peter ein Bilderbuch” by Anna Kroch. Image features a boy in a car that has driven into a body of water; ships with sails can be seen among the waves in the distance .
Glass stereographs of battle scenes taken in France during World War I. Nearly all the images show the destruction caused by the war. The photographer is unknown, but was probably French as the hand-written captions on the slides are in French. The...
13th century(1200 - 1299), 14th century (1300 - 1399)
Left: St. Louis burying bones of Crusaders. In 1253, Saracens sacked city of Sidon, killing more than 2000 Christians. When city was recaptured, St. Louis helped to bury the dead. f.159v.
Right: Text page of Office of St. Louis. Figures in...
13th century(1200 - 1299), 14th century (1300 - 1399)
Left: St. Louis feed a leprous monk. Below the miniature a woman and two old men fight with sticks and baskets. f.123v.
Right: Text page of Office of St. Louis. Note monster illustrations. f. 124.
The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux, Queen of...
13th century(1200 - 1299), 14th century (1300 - 1399)
Left: St. Louis Administers to the Sick. The Miniature depicts a medieval hospital. Two beggars support the columns. f.142v.
Right: Text page of Office of St. Louis. Half monster figures in initial and margins represent soldier, musician with...
13th century(1200 - 1299), 14th century (1300 - 1399)
Left: St. Louis Washes feet of poor. Joinville stands behind Louis, and refuses to participate in any such act of humility.148v.
Right: Text page of office of St. Louis. Half-monk within initial uses bellows for a lute. In upoper right,...
Sebald Beham, The Roman Clergy's Procession into Hell, Woodcut.
From Moxey's discussions of woodcuts and broadsheets during the early Reformation in Nuremberg, pp25-29 : Not only were works of Martin Luther and other reformers openly...
Sebald Beham, the Fall of the Papacy, woodcut.
From Moxey's discussions of woodcuts and broadsheets in the early Reformation in Nuremberg, pp. 25-29: Not only were works of Martin Luther and other reformers openly published and sold, but...
15th Century (1400 - 1499), 16th century (1500 - 1599)
Anonymous, The Seven-Headed Papal Beast, woodcut.
From Moxey's discussions of woodcuts and broadsheets in the early Reformation in Nuremberg, pp. 25-29: Not only were works of Martin Luther and other reformers openly published and sold,...
15th Century (1400 - 1499), 16th century (1500 - 1599)
Erhard Schon, A Column of Mercenaries
From Moxey’s discussion of “Mercenary Warriors and the ‘Rod of God’,” pp. 72-83: Heroic characterization of the mercenary found in Schon's Column of Mercenaries is a feature of many...
16th Century (1500 - 1599), 17th Century (1600 - 1699)
When in 1583 Michael Eytzinger first used the image of the lion to portray the Netherlands (most of the 17 provinces used a lion in their armorial bearings) they were still officially considered as one political group although the revolt was in...
16th Century (1500 - 1599), 17th Century (1600 - 1699)
The Barbarous Irish
Native Irish despised by English as barbarous and priest-ridden. In this illustration from Derrick's ""Image of Irelande,"" the chieftain of the of the Mac Sweynes (sprung from 'Macke Swine . . . which mai bee perceived by...
