Streets; Stores & shops; Dry goods stores; Fire escapes
Southeast corner of 4th Street and Jefferson Street. A general store is located on the ground floor of the building with a shoe repair company next to it on Fourth Street. A set of stairs serving as a fire escape descend from the fourth-story...
"In a border of inverted rows of stepped pyramids (omitted in the picture) one of the most popular episodes of Greek mythology, the rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, is represented. […] To the right, identified by an inscription in Greek,...
"Fate of the Beasts (1913), perhaps also related to the prevailing apprehensions of war, portrays a total, inescapable catastrophe. Hard, arrowlike diagonals intersect to shoot across the canvas. Trees bleed and descend in a cosmic cataclysm....
"The outstanding preserved example of early Sumerian temple architecture is the 5,000-year-old White Temple at Uruk, the home of Gilgamesh. Usually only the foundations of early Mesopotamian temples can still be recognized. The White Temple is...
Architecture; Buildings; Temples; Religious facilities; Walls; Drawings; Reconstructions; Architectural drawings
Reconstruction drawing (after S.E. Piggott). "The outstanding preserved example of early Sumerian temple architecture is the 5,000-year-old White Temple at Uruk, the home of Gilgamesh. Usually only the foundations of early Mesopotamian temples...
