Unusual Collection (page 8)

Hummingbird Valentine, 1845/1869. Creator: Jonathan King
Hummingbird Valentine, 1845/1869. Stuffed bird on a card. Possibly by Jonathan King

Leap Year, Britannia!, n.d. Creator: Unknown
Leap Year, Britannia!, n.d. There are some stiffish matters to clear, but I think we shall manage them'. Horse with a man's face. Possibly after Sir John Tenniel

Unwrapping the Mummy, before 1825. Creator: Harriet Cheney
Unwrapping the Mummy, before 1825. Scene in the Paris apartment of Dominique-Vivant Denon, diplomat, explorer, and director of the Musee du Louvre

The Pipe of Peace (recto), n.d. Creator: Ebenezer Newman Downard
The Pipe of Peace (recto); (Sketch of Village Street (verso)), n.d

The Pedestrian Hobbies, or the Difference of Going Up and Down Hill, published April 8, 1819. Creator: William Heath
The Pedestrian Hobbies, or the Difference of Going Up and Down Hill, published April 8, 1819. Men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle)

The New Long Back'd Hobby made to carry Three without Kicking, published June 19, 1819. Creator: William Heath
The New Long Back'd Hobby made to carry Three without Kicking, published June 19, 1819. A hobby horse (a forerunner of the bicycle) adapted to carry a passenger

Hobbies or Attitude is Everything, Dedicated with permission to all Dandy.. pub. April 17, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Hobbies or Attitude is Everything, Dedicated with permission to all Dandy Horsemen, published April 17, 1819. An accident involving men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle)

Everyone His Hobby, plate 2, published April 24, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Everyone His Hobby, plate 2, published April 24, 1819. Caricatures of men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle) designed to reflect their profession

Everyone His Hobby, plate 1, published April 24, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Everyone His Hobby, plate 1, published April 24, 1819. Caricatures of men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle) designed to reflect their profession

Fete to Officers of the English and French Forces, and the Greek Army and Navy, in the... 1854. Creator: Unknown
Fete to Officers of the English and French Forces, and the Greek Army and Navy, in the Acropolis at Athens, 1854. Scene during the Crimean War: a banquet for officers of the...Army of Occupation

Le jugement du pape Formose, c.1870. Creator: Jean-Paul Laurens
Le jugement du pape Formose, c.1870. The judgment of Pope Formosus. After the death of Formosus in 896 CE, Pope Stephen VI sat in judgment of him in 897, in what is known as the Cadaver Synod

Le lion amoureux, c.1836. Creator: Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan
Le lion amoureux, c.1836. The Lion in Love. Scene from the fables of La Fontaine: a lion falls in love with a peasant's daughter and asks the father's permission to marry her

Reproduction of illustrations: "Pollybirida Singularis" and "Manypeeplia Upsidownia", between 1915 and 1925

Reproduction of illustrations: "Pollybirida Singularis" and "Manypeeplia Upsidownia", c1915 - 1925
Reproduction of illustrations: "Pollybirida Singularis" and "Manypeeplia Upsidownia", between 1915 and 1925

Reproduction of print showing Nymphs before Jupiter, between 1915 and 1925. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Reproduction of print showing Nymphs before Jupiter, between 1915 and 1925. Photograph of a woodblock from Francesco Colonna, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", Venice, 1499

Reproduction of illustrations: "Piggiwiggia Pyramadalis" and "Bottleforkia Spoonifolia", between 1915 and 1925

Sketch for the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis : The Serpent of Airain, c.1819. Creator: Constantin-Louis-Félix Smith
Sketch for the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis : The Serpent of Airain, c.1819. Moses and the Brazen Serpent. Yahweh instructed Moses to erect a bronze effigy of a serpent on a pole

Large L-shaped residence, Colorado, designed by architect Jacques Benois Benedict, c1903 - 1923. Creator: Unknown
Large L-shaped residence, Colorado, designed by architect Jacques Benois Benedict, between 1903 and 1923

Amanab, a Greek giant, 7 feet 9 inches tall, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Amanab, a Greek giant, 7 feet 9 inches tall, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Le Combat des soldats nés des dents du serpent, between 1742 and 1743. Creator: Jean Francois de Troy
Le Combat des soldats nes des dents du serpent, between 1742 and 1743. Combat of soldiers born from dragon's teeth. An army of soldiers emerges from the earth after Jason planted the teeth of a

G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918
G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Men in printing works

Secretary William Jennings Bryan with his double, between 1913 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Secretary William Jennings Bryan with his double, between 1913 and 1917. American lawyer, orator and politician

Les Macrobes : « L'armée des Macrobes était là rangée sur les deux rives », 1909. Creator: Andre Devambez
Les Macrobes : « L'armee des Macrobes etait la rangee sur les deux rives », 1909. The army of Macrobes positioned on both sides of the river. Monsters on the banks of the Seine in Paris

La tentation de saint Antoine, 1897. Creator: Henri Fantin-Latour
La tentation de saint Antoine, 1897. The Temptation of St Anthony

Signaling, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Signaling, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Signaling, between 1910 and 1917. USA. Man in military uniform teaching women (scout leaders?) semaphore

Esquisse pour l'église Saint-Sulpice : L'Assomption de la Vierge, 1869
Esquisse pour l'eglise Saint-Sulpice : L'Assomption de la Vierge, 1869. Assumption of the Virgin

United Service Club, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. United Service Club, between 1910 and 1920
United Service Club, between 1910 and 1920. US military personnel on a sofa. The man in the centre is wearing leather leg protectors

Capt. Buzzcott's army kitchen, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Capt
Capt. Buzzcott's [sic] army kitchen, between 1910 and 1920. USA Motor Field Kitchen, designed by Francis H. Buzzacott

Smithfield Court House, Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, between 1933 and 1935

County fair, tintype booth of Miss. F.B. Johnston, May 1903, 1903. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
County fair, tintype booth of Miss. F.B. Johnston, May 1903, 1903. Photograph shows photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston [centre], with women and men outside a tent offering tintype portraits

Grey Gardens, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, 1913 or 1916. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
N.Y. Long Island, Mrs. Robert Hill, Gray [sic] Gardens, East Hampton, gen. view ESE, 1913 or 1916. [Grey Gardens was the home of the reclusive mother and daughter both named Edith Beale]

U.S.S. Olympia - crew's mess, 1899. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
U.S.S. Olympia - crew's mess, 1899. Interior view of dining area aboard the USS Olympia, showing sailors eating at a table suspended by ropes

Frances Benjamin Johnston (right), full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with... c1880 - 1900
Frances Benjamin Johnston (right), full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with two unidentified women, one of whom is also dressed as a man, between 1880 and 1900

Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false... c1890 - 1900
Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with bicycle, facing left, between 1890 and 1900

Bobroff voting machine being considered for use in house, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Bobroff voting machine being considered for use in house, between 1910 and 1917. Standing right to left: Representatives Jacoway; Caraway; and Britten'. Sign reads: Bill no

Candlestick, c. 1935. Creator: Benjamin Resnick
Candlestick, c. 1935

Graduation Day at Annapolis - cadet receiving his diploma from President Theodore Roosevelt, 1902. [Participants enjoy a joke together]

Alvey Augustus Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Alvey Augustus Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, 1914. US politician, Washington, DC

Alvey Augustus Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Alvey Augustus Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, 1914. US politician, Washington, DC

Three African American women...State Fair at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1903. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Three African American women, full-length portrait, standing, at the State Fair at Saint Paul, Minn. 1903

Gardener standing alongside shrub trimmed into shape of a rooster, in garden at Villa... 1925
Gardener standing alongside shrub trimmed into shape of a rooster, in garden at Villa Trianon, France, 1925

Deverow child, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Deverow child, between 1910 and 1917
Deverow child, between 1910 and 1917. Boy in Roman dress driving a chariot pulled by ponies, USA

Miss Johnston & audience, Lake Como, Italy, 1899. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Miss Johnston & audience, Lake Como, Italy, 1899. [Photographer] Frances Benjamin Johnston, standing with her camera, and group of children

Goat team, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Goat team, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Goat team, between 1910 and 1917. African American man with wagon pulled by goats

Front page of the Christmas supplement of the Illustrated London News, 23 December 1854. Creator: George W. Terry
Front page of the Christmas supplement of the Illustrated London News, 23 December 1854. Calendar for the year 1855, with central image of a woman by a kitchen range

House Committee To Investigate American Sugar Refining Co. And Others - Racker... 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
House Committee To Investigate American Sugar Refining Co. And Others - Racker, John Edward of California; Garrett, Finis James, Rep. From Tennessee; Hardwick, Thomas William, Rep

Sea Anemones in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's-Park, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sea Anemones in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's-Park, 1854. Aquatic life at London Zoo. From the...background rises up a tall, massive

Edward B. McLean, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edward B. McLean, between 1909 and 1923
Edward B. McLean, between 1909 and 1923. American newspaperman and racehorse owner Edward Beale McLean, publisher and owner of The Washington Post

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