Idea Collection

The Social Science Congress at New York: conversazione in the Assembly Rooms, Blake-street, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Social Science Congress at New York: conversazione in the Assembly Rooms, Blake-street, 1864. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm (Sensu no seiran) from the series "Eight Scenes... c. 1777
A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm (Sensu no seiran) from the series "Eight Scenes of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)", c. 1777

Exhibit at the outdoor exhibition entitled "The Nature of the Enemy, "... New York, 1943
New York, New York. Exhibit at the outdoor exhibition entitled " The Nature of the Enemy, " held on the plaza of Rockefeller Center

New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a... Josephine County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of North America and formation of energy units, which had widespread vogue in the early years of depression

Colinson, (1694-1768), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Colinson, (1694-1768), 1830. Peter Collinson (1694-1768) Fellow of the Royal Society, avid gardener and friend of John Bartram who was in correspondence with Benjamin Franklin about electricity

Rustic Treatment. - Summer House in a Tree, an ideal Tea House, 1920. Creator: Unknown
A Rustic Treatment. - A novel treatment for a Summer House built in a Tree, making an ideal Tea House, 1920. From " The Ideal Home - April 1920". [London, 1920]

Christmas Greetings - Bookmark, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Christmas Greetings - Bookmark, c1900. [Raphael Tuck & Sons, Limited, London, Paris and New York, ]

Cogers Hall, from an old print, 1897. Creator: Unknown
Cogers Hall, from an old print, 1897. Cogers Hall as it might have looked in the 18th century. Cogers Hall, a debating society that met in a London tavern, was instituted in 1755

Paul Bromberg. Combined drawing- and dining-room in a house at Rotterdam, in ivory, red-orange and beige, 1939. From Decorative Art 1939 - The Studio Year Book, edited by C. G. Holme

Rowley Gallery of Decorative Art Ltd - Combined dining-living-room open, 1939. From Decorative Art 1939 - The Studio Year Book, edited by C. G. Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1939]

A Sail with Sledges. South of Cape Richthofen. 6 June, 1896, (1897). Artist: August Eiebakke
A Sail with Sledges. South of Cape Richthofen. 6 June, 1896, (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 2 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

Profile to Right of a Bald Man, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Profile to Right of a Bald Man, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Machine for Shaping Iron Rods for Making Cannon, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Machine for Shaping Iron Rods for Making Cannon, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Drawing of a Flying Machine with a Man Operating It, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Drawing of a Flying Machine with a Man Operating It, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Drawing of a Flying Machine, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Drawing of a Flying Machine, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Sheet 2, from a portfolio of alphabets, 1929. From 20 Alphabets and Instructive Plates for Pen & Ink. [James Dorn, London, 1929]

The First Preaching of Christianity in Britain, c1900. Artist: John Easton
The First Preaching of Christianity in Britain, c1900. After Charles West Cope (1811-1890). [Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh]

Shadow Pictures, 1937. From The Childrens Golden Treasure Book for 1937, edited by John R. Crossland and J. M. Parrish. [Odhams Press Ltd. London, 1937]

Reader in Cigar Factory, Havana, Cuba, c1910s
Reader in Cigar Factory, Havana, Cuba. Readers are a traditional feature of Cuban cigar factories where the reader, often someone with radio experience, reads the news

Philosophy, History, and Prudence awakening the mind to a desire for knowledge, c1624, (1938). Originally mistakenly catalogued as Temptation of Youth, and attributed to Guildo Reni (1575-1642)

August - Idees Napoliennes, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
August - Idees Napoliennes, 19th century

Inuit Strap Drill for making fire from Western Alaska. Eskimo

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