Waves break against rocks and sand along the shore of Lake Michigan. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "Wave Washed Sand". Inscribed on first and second pages of album: "Illustrations, by Kate Seston...
Children; Men; Women; Indians of North America; Windmills; Animals; Circuses & shows; Sailboats; Churns
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: picture, within frame of birds and leaves, of boys on hill looking at houses below; man with ponytail and earring carrying child wrapped in blanket on his back through snowy woods -...
A fifteenth century scribe prepared this blank leaf made of animal skin by marking 19 straight lines before writing a text. Animal skin was still being used for many books during this time, although paper was known in Europe by the fourteenth...