Images Dated 2019 November

Giants Gap, 1874. Creator: Thomas Moran

Giant's Gap, 1874. The Sierra Nevada mountains in California and Nevada, USA. ...the rock-forms are picturesque and grand...Castellated, pinnacled, with sides like perpendicular walls, and summits like chiselled platforms, they give a strangely beautiful aspect to every shore and gorge and valley...it would be impossible to find a more glorious drive than is this along the edge of the river-bed...through the very heart of one of the noblest groups of the Sierra chain...The great canyons, and such noble breaks in the rock-wall as can give us glimpses like that of the Giant's Gap...are certainly among the vistas through which one looks upon the chosen scenes of the whole world'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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Map illustrating the Brest-Litovsk Treaties, First World War, c1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown

Map illustrating the Brest-Litovsk Treaties, First World War, c1918, (c1920). Pink: Areas taken by Germany'; dark blue: Nationalities of self-determination'; light blue: Area to be evacuated by Germany'. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, also known as the Brest Peace in Russia, was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume VII, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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The Spouting Horn in a Storm, 1872. Creator: W. J. Linton

The "Spouting Horn" in a Storm, 1872. Rocks on the coast of Maine, north eastern USA: a wide chasm in the cliff, which extends down to the water and opens to the sea through a small archway below high-water mark. At low water the arch may be reached over the slippery, weed-covered rocks, and the chasm within ascended by means of uncertain footholds in the sides of the rocky wall. A few adventurous tourists have accomplished this feat, but it is a very dangerous one. If the foot should slip on the smooth, briny rock, and the adventurer glide into the water, escape would be almost impossible. The waves would suck him down into their depths - now toss him upon rocks, whose slippery surface would resist every attempt to grasp, then drag him back into their foaming embrace'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]

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