Images Dated 2019 June

Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, . Creator: Unknown

Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, late 19th century. Female weaver at a loom at Merton Abbey Mills in south London. The Abbey buildings were renovated and adapted for textile printing at the beginning of the 19th century, and acquired by the artist and textile designer William Morris (1834-1896) in 1881. Morris had started to weave his first carpets at Kelmscott House, his home in Hammersmith. From "Modern Art Monographs"

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The Battle of Agincourt, 1773. Creator: William Walker

The Battle of Agincourt, 1773. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). The Battle of Agincourt in of 1415 of the Hundred Years War, between Henry V of England and Charles VI of France whose army was commanded by Constable Charles d'Albret saw an English victory with great loss of life on both sides. From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]

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Map of Assyria, Chaldea and Adjacent Countries, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Map of Assyria, Chaldea and Adjacent Countries, 1890. Assyria was a Mesopotamian kingdom from 25th century BC to 612 BC- 609 BC. Chaldea was a country between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which it was absorbed and assimilated into Babylonia. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

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