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...
Several displays in a large room with a grid of metal beams at the ceiling within the Palace of Agriculture at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On top of one of the displays, an enormous model of a tobacco leaf rises between two octagonal...
Louisville Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse at Camp Taylor, featuring a wooden floor, brick walls, and a sign for "Camels" in the background. Two men tackle a pile of tobacco as high as their heads.
Auctioneer R. D. Jones (presumably the man at center, wearing black gloves with his three-piece suit and hat), presiding over the auction at Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse at Camp Taylor. Men inspect tobacco and talk.
Two men wearing denim overalls load tobacco sold at auction at Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse at Camp Taylor, while two other men look on. Above the piles of tobacco leaves, a cigarette ad (bearing the words "Sir Walter Raleigh" is visible...
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"The Louvre diptych was produced in 506 A.D., on the occasion of the consulate of Areobindus. […] An exceptionally high number of diptychs and panels in his name remain: two complete diptychs and five individual panels. […] The Areobindus...
