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...
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 -...