Map of Kentucky and Tennessee shows rivers, roads and distances between cities and towns. State borders are hand colored. Printed below map frame, "J. Knight Sc." According to the collector's notes, this map was published by Darby in...
Map of Kentucky, bordered by Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee, shows rivers, cities, and county names, but not county borders. According to the collector's notes, this map was reportedly published in Boston in 1830.
Map of Tennessee and Kentucky shows mountain ranges, rivers, major creeks, canals, proposed and finished railroads, counties, cities, and towns. State and county borders are traced in color and relief is shown by hachures. Printed below map frame,...
Map of Kentucky shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, cities, and towns. County borders are traced in color and relief is shown by hachures. Printed below map frame, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1838 by T....
Map of Kentucky shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, cities, and towns. State and county borders are traced in color and relief is shown by hachures. Printed below map frame, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year...
Scarce cerographic, or wax-engraved, map of Kentucky and Tennessee shows mountain ranges, rivers, creeks, canals, railroads, roads, counties, cities, and towns. State and county borders are traced in color and relief is shown by hachures. Some...
German map of Kentucky shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, cities, and towns plus existing and proposed canals, streets and railroads. State borders are traced in color and relief is shown by hachures. Distances between towns are...
Map of Kentucky shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, cities, and towns. State and county borders are traced in color and relief is shown by hachures.
Map of Kentucky and Tennessee shows mountain ranges, rivers, creeks, railroads, counties, cities, and towns. State borders are traced in color, counties are lightly tinted and relief is show by hachures. Insets include hypsometric map illustrating...
Color map of Kentucky and Tennessee shows mountain ranges, rivers, major creeks, railroads, counties, cities, and towns. State borders are traced in color, counties are lightly tinted and relief is shown by hachures. Printed at lower right, within...
Map of Kentucky and Tennessee shows rivers, large creeks, railroads, roads, counties, cities, and towns. State borders are traced in color and counties are lightly tinted. Printed below map frame "Drawn & Engraved by J. Bartholomew,...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1500-1550
A Book of Hours was the primary text for private lay devotion in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Consisting of the cycle of prayers to be recited at the eight canonical hours or established times for prayers throughout the day, the content of...
Leaf from a nineteenth century Persian language history book produced in India, most likely Jaipur, in AH 1284. The date, according to the Islamic calendar, is counted from 622 CE when the Prophet Muhammad made his Hijra or Hegira, moving from...
Khamsah--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. One of Persia's most famous poets, the twelfth century Nizam-uddin Abu Mahommed Ilyas bin Yusuf lived most of his life in Ganja, in what now is Azerbaijan. Nizami is best remembered for his...
Leaf from a nineteenth century Persian language history book produced in India, most likely Jaipur, in AH 1284. The date, according to the Islamic calendar, is counted from 622 CE when the Prophet Muhammad made his Hijra or Hegira, moving from...
A quilt or blanket documenting the history of the United States in squares with images and dates and the words Government of the People By the People And For the People Shall Not Perish From the Earth across the top and bottom borders. Title...
Sculpture; Urns; Death & burial; Containers; Soldiers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Death & burial; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Cartouches; Pediments; Tympana; Architectural elements; Inscriptions; Names;...
"The front of this rectangular urn is decorated with two friezes of hearts and darts. Smooth strips frame the decoration along the top and bottom rims and emphasize the container's shape. The central surface of such objects was inscribed. This...
