EditorialPhotograph - HMS Crocodile, Suez Canal, Egypt, circa 1886, One of four albumen silver photographs depicting the Suez Canal, circa 1880s. The Suez Canal is a part natural and part man-made sea-level waterway through eastern Egypt connecting the Mediterr...
EditorialHottentots, Lifestyle, clothing, hunting instruments, livestock and child care of the Hottentots, a primitive people at the Cape of Good Hope, Signed: P. Sonnerat pinx, Poisson sculp, Pl. 84, before p. 93 (vol. 1), Sonnerat, Pierre M. (pinx.); Poisson,...
EditorialThe town of Sitten, or Sion, in the Pa?s of Valais, View of Sion, Primitive: Val?re and Tourbillon, to p. 488, 1723, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive, itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis MDCCII, MDCIII, MDCCIV, MDC...
EditorialPhotograph - British Troops Arriving in Port Said, Egypt, 1882, One of four albumen silver photographs depicting the Suez Canal, circa 1880s. The Suez Canal is a part natural and part man-made sea-level waterway through eastern Egypt connecting the Med...
EditorialPhotograph - Illustration of the Suez Canal, Egypt, circa 1880, One of four albumen silver photographs depicting the Suez Canal, circa 1880s. The Suez Canal is a part natural and part man-made sea-level waterway through eastern Egypt connecting the Med...
EditorialPhotograph - Ismailia Palace, Suez Canal, Ismailia, Egypt, circa 1880, One of four albumen silver photographs depicting the Suez Canal, circa 1880s. The Suez Canal is a part natural and part man-made sea-level waterway through eastern Egypt connecting ...
EditorialNegative - Chilwell, Geelong, Victoria, circa 1920, A group of people outside the church hall of the Primitive Methodist Church, Bond Street, Chilwell. Following the gradual union of Methodist denominations, the church closed in 1929 as congregational ...
EditorialMicropteryx chrysurus, Print, Micropterix is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the insect order Lepidoptera within the family Micropterigidae that is distributed across Europe south to North Africa and east as far as Japan., 1700-1880.
EditorialAgyrtes, Print, Agyrtes is a genus of primitive carrion beetles in the family Agyrtidae. There are at least four described species in Agyrtes.
EditorialThe Primitive Cottage, Shoreham. Landscape. Pen and dark brown ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textued, cream heavy wove paper. Height: 276 mm (10.86 in); Width: 378 mm (14.88 in).
EditorialKaychins bringing wood into Bhamo. The carts used for that purpose are of the most primitive description, the wheels being sometimes made from one solid piece of wood; at other times, as in this case, of three pieces joined together. 'Burmah. A series ...
EditorialTable XXIV'. 'Pedigree of mammals'. Plate XV. 'The pedigree of man'. A table showing the pedigree of mammals; a 'tree' listing mammals, vertebrates, invertebrates and primitive animals. The 'pedigree of man' illustrates the evolutionary history of huma...
EditorialThe Primitive Cottage, Shoreham. Landscape. Pen and dark brown ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textued, cream heavy wove paper. Height: 276 mm (10.86 in); Width: 378 mm (14.88 in).
EditorialFisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai, ?? ?? ????? ?, Song dynasty (960?1279), ca. 1170, China, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, Image (a): 16 in. ? 53 3/4 in. (40.6 ? 136.5 cm), Paintings, Li Jie (Chinese, 1124? before 1197), In this imaginary depiction ...
EditorialBALEARIC ISLANDS. MINORCA. View of the north landscape of the island in the direction of Cap de Cavalleria. The characteristic color of dark red hue of the primary lands is appreciated. The Menorcan north has avery old geological origin, its reddish so...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Residents walk through the streets of downtown Budapest eyeing the damage. Children ...
EditorialSkull of Homo erectus from Sangiran Java. The earliest fossils of Homo erectus, or a more primitive ancestral form Homo ergaster, date back to 1.8_1.9 million years ago, in Kenya. Homo erectus has been identified as having been present in tropical area...
EditorialView over the Filitosa prehistoric settlement. Men may have settled there as early as the 7th millenium BCE. Primitive shelters gave way to early mehirs, to finely sculpted anthropomorphic menhirs, to the final, cupola crowned " torre" .