EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...
EditorialView of a slate factory?, Middle Granville, N.Y., Kinney, B. C., ca. 1855-ca. 1930, Slate quarrying, New York (State), Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.), Middle Granville (N.Y.).
EditorialQuarrying granite for Mormon Temple., Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942), E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), 1870, United States.
EditorialGenesee Valley Sand Stone Quarry, showing all the opertions of quarrying., 1870, New York (State), Portage (N.Y.), Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.).
EditorialJacob Houbraken, Men quarrying or mining for gold, from 'Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus' (Volume 3), Jacob Houbraken (Dutch, Dordrecht 16981780 Amsterdam), After Antonio Rossi (Italian, Bologna 17001753 Bologna), 1726, Etching, Sheet (Trimmed): 17 1/2 ? 12...
EditorialStatue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1802 B.C., From Egypt; Probably originally from Southern Upper Egypt, Elephantine, Sandstone, H. 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.); W. 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); D. 16 cm (6 5/...
EditorialQuarrying Granite for Mormon Temple, 1870/78, William Henry Jackson, American, 1843?1942, United States, Albumen print, stereo, No. 119 from the series "Views in the Rocky Mountains.
EditorialIllustration of the First Parable: alchemists searching for gold by quarrying into a rock; below, Esther and Ahasuerus. Splendor Solis. Germany, 1582. Source: Harley 3469, f.13v. Language: German.
EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...
EditorialIllustration of the First Parable: alchemists searching for gold by quarrying into a rock; below, Esther and Ahasuerus. Splendor Solis. Germany, 1582. Source: Harley 3469, f.13v. Language: German.
EditorialAlum works. The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series. Richard Jackson: Leeds, 1885. Men quarrying at an alum works. Image taken from The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being facsimiles of original drawings ...
EditorialStatue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1802 B.C., From Egypt; Probably originally from Southern Upper Egypt, Elephantine, Sandstone, H. 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.); W. 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); D. 16 cm (6 5/...
EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...