Writing Collection (#7)

Australia Batman 1827
JOHN BATMAN (1800-1827) negotiates with the aborigines of Victoria

Coining Machines : (L) For writing on edge (R) Mill

Illumination from the MacDumon Gospel
An illumination from the MacDurnon Gospel, an Irish medieval manuscript

Actress Diana Dors surrounded by autograph hunters at Cannes Film Festival May 1956

Christmas card with pink blotting paper, pen and postcard. Date: circa 1890s

ReneDescartes. Creator: Unknown
Rene Descartes

Sinograms, Japanese writing characters, National Art Center, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

Neon sign of restaurant, Tai Hang, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Khmer writing script carved in stone, Prasat Preah Ko temple ruins, Roluos, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

Colorful vintage neon sign with Chinese characters, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Peggy Cummins as Kitty in Meet Mr. Lucifer

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Sharyn Bursic

Cordial Bottle, c1775-1810. Creator: Unknown
Cordial Bottle, c1775-1810

H.L. Stimson at desk writing, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
H.L. Stimson at desk writing, 1910

Ali Rustem Bey, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Ali Rustem Bey, 1914. Ahmet Rustem Bey (1862-1934) who was the Turkish ambassador to the United States from June to October, 1914, on a boat with a reporter

Saint Mark the Evangelist, 1478. Creator: Gabriel Malesskircher
Saint Mark the Evangelist, 1478

Saint Luke the Evangelist, 1478. Creator: Gabriel Malesskircher
Saint Luke the Evangelist, 1478

Saint John the Evangelist, 1478. Creator: Gabriel Malesskircher
Saint John the Evangelist, 1478

Saint Matthew the Evangelist, 1478. Creator: Gabriel Malesskircher
Saint Matthew the Evangelist, 1478

Men dancing to samisen music, from the series Shokoku meibutsu (Famous products... 1890-1895. Creator: Totoya Hokkei)
Men dancing to samisen music, from the series Shokoku meibutsu (Famous products of the provinces), 1890-1895

Woman in front of the Tagawaya Teahouse, 1815-1842. Creator: Ikeda Eisen
Woman in front of the Tagawaya Teahouse, 1815-1842. The winter setting for the image of a woman walking alone in front of a teahouse (the sign at upper left reads Kaiseki Tagawaya)

Poet no. 6: Chünagon (Ötomo no) Yakamochi, from the series Hyakunin isshu... c.1844. Creator: Utagawa Kunisada
Poet no. 6: Chunagon (-tomo no) Yakamochi, from the series Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred poemsone hundred poets), c.1844

Jas. M. Baker, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Jas. M. Baker, 1913. Shows James Marion Baker (1861-1940), Secretary of the Senate from 1913 to 1919

Felipe De Guevara, 1531. Creator: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
Felipe De Guevara, 1531. The Spanish historian Felipe de Guevara is shown writing a letter and holding a pair of spectacles

The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, c1915-35. Creator: Hermann Wohler
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, c1915-35

Lambert Murphy, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Lambert Murphy, between c1915 and c1920. Shows American tenor opera singer Lambert Murphy (1885-1954)

John D. Moore, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
John D. Moore, between c1915 and c1920. Possibly shows John N. Boyle

In Michigan Hdqrs. New York, between 1917 and 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
In Michigan Hdqrs. New York, between 1917 and 1919. American soldiers seated around a table in New York City after returning from World War I

Storage, between 1917 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Storage, between 1917 and c1920. The warehouse of the Army Quartermaster's Effects Bureau which managed the personal effects of soldiers who died in World War I

Paris fashions for November, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for November, 1865. 1. Morning dress in violet silk...its shape, the "Gabrielle, " is to the last degree becoming; the trimmings at the back of the bodice

Paris fashions for September, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for September, 1865. Fig. 1. Dress for the Seaside. Dark blue silk robe...edged with black velvet and white lace. The short vest is ornamented in a similar manner

Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: the Sarcophagus-Room, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: the Sarcophagus-Room, 1864. View of...the Sepulchral Chamber, in the lower part of the Museum

Paris fashions for August, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for August, 1865. Fig. 1. Walking Dress. Plain slate-coloured foulard robe. Blue silk casaque open at the sides and trimmed round the edge and on the corsage with black passementerie

The War in Schleswig: chapel at Gravenstein used as a Prussian barrack... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Schleswig: chapel at Gravenstein [in Denmark] used as a Prussian barrack - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864

Paderewski, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Paderewski, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) seated at an outdoor table

Iva Shuster -- Judge F.B. House, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Iva Shuster -- Judge F.B. House, 1917. Shows Iva Shuster who was appointed as official stenographer for the City Magistrates courts in New York City in January 1917

Tommy writing home after battle, 11 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Tommy writing home after battle, 11 Jun 1917. A British officer, lying on the ground in a captured German trench in Oostaverne Wood, Belgium, writing a letter

German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. German nurses in a class room studying the Russian language during World War I

The Gutenberg Bible, 1455. Creator: Unknown artist
The Gutenberg Bible, 1455. Found in the Collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Pictures from the 1603 Gospel, vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, 1911

Pictures from the 1603 Gospel, vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, 1911

Letter-writers and dealers in cigar-ends at Rome, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Letter-writers and dealers in cigar-ends at Rome, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Mariani....especially on Sundays after mass

Irene McIntyre, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Irene McIntyre, between c1915 and c1920. Salvation Army worker Irene McIntyre of Mount Vernon, New York who worked on the front lines in France during World War I

Recipes, Naval cooking school, 59th St. N.Y. between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Recipes, Naval cooking school, 59th St. N.Y. between c1915 and 1918. Students looking at a blackboard on which are written recipes for rye bread and other foods, at the New York Cooking School

Komsomol Leaders Rufina Chudnik and Anna Preikshas, 1925. Creator: Unknown
Komsomol Leaders Rufina Chudnik and Anna Preikshas, 1925. The "Kuzbass" autonomous industrial colony was created in 1921

Boris Lvovich Brook - leader of the KOMZET expedition in the Far Eastern region in 1927, 1948. Creator: Unknown
Boris Lvovich Brook - leader of the KOMZET expedition in the Far Eastern region in 1927, 1948. From a collection of documents, photographs, maps

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Michaela Durisova

the literary critics II
Michael Allmaier

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