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(1507-1536) Second wife of Henry VIII, Mother of Queen Elizabeth I

Anne Boleyn

(1507-1536) Second wife of Henry VIII, Mother of Queen Elizabeth I

Mother Hildegarde carrying a baby.

Mother Hildegarde

Mother Hildegarde carrying a baby.

Blind man with stick

Blind Man

Blind man with stick

Boy sick in bed with Mother and medicine

Boy

Boy sick in bed with Mother and medicine

Boy and mother.

Boy and mother

Boy and mother.

Girl and Mother

Girl and Mother

Girl and Mother

Girl and Mother

Girl and Mother

Girl and Mother

Mother of Nero, wife of Claudius whom she poisoned.

Agrippina

Mother of Nero, wife of Claudius whom she poisoned.

Hamlet and his mother

Hamlet and his mother

Hamlet and his mother

Abalone or ear-shell; furnishes mother-of-pearl for inlaid work.

Abalone

Abalone or ear-shell; furnishes mother-of-pearl for inlaid work.

A mother quail and her young

Quail

A mother quail and her young

Portrait of Rembrandt's mother.

Rembrandt's Mother

Portrait of Rembrandt's mother.

Simple Simon went a-fishing for to catch a whale. All the water he had got was in his mother's pail.

Simple Simon

Simple Simon went a-fishing for to catch a whale. All the water he had got was in his mother's pail.

Old Mother Duck has hatched a brood of ducklings, small and callow. Their wings are short, their down is mottled grey and yellow.

Dame Duck

Old Mother Duck has hatched a brood of ducklings, small and callow. Their wings are short, their down…

A mother baboon cleaning her infant.

Mother and Infant Baboon

A mother baboon cleaning her infant.

Crying child comforted by mother.

Crying Child

Crying child comforted by mother.

"Oh, mother, I'm to be married to Mr. Punchinello."

Punchinello

"Oh, mother, I'm to be married to Mr. Punchinello."

A giant in Brobdingnag with her baby. The baby trying to stick Gulliver in his mouth.

Mother with Her Baby

A giant in Brobdingnag with her baby. The baby trying to stick Gulliver in his mouth.

The Red House. The "Red House" is situated upon the street in Wilkesbarre next the river, and about seventy-five rods below the bridge. It is the place where John Franklin was arrested. On his return from a political tour down the valley, he came up by the way of Hanover to Wilkesbarre. While standing near the ferry, an acquaintance came up to him and said, "A friend at the Red House wishes to speak to you." Franklin walked to the house, where a person caught him from behind, and attempted to pinion his hands. He was a powerful man, and shook off his captors; but, a noose being thrown over his head, he was secured. They then attempted to get him on horseback, when he cried out, "Help, help! William Slocum! where is William Slocum?" and, drawing his pistols, discharged one, but without effect. He was felled by a blow, and laid almost senseless. It was seeding time, and nearly all the men were in the fields. But the Yankee blood of Mrs. Slocum (the mother of the "lost sister") was up, and, seizing a gun, she ran to the door, exclaiming, "William! Who will call William? Is there no man here? Will nobody rescue him?" Colonel Pickering's dwelling was near the "Red House." It is still standing, but so modernized that its original character is lost.

Red House

The Red House. The "Red House" is situated upon the street in Wilkesbarre next the river, and about…

The Vankleek House. It was built by Myndert Vankleek, one of the first settlers in Dutchess county, in 1702, and was the first substantial house erected upon the site of Poughkeepsie. Its walls were very thick, and near the eaves they were pierced with lancet loop-holes for musketry. It was here that Ann Lee, the founder of the sect called Shaking Quakers, in this country, was lodged the night previous to her commitment to the Poughkeepsie jail, in 1776. She was a native of Manchester, England. During her youth she was employed in a cotton factory, and afterward as a cook in the Manchester infirmary. She married a blacksmith named Stanley; became acquainted with James and Jane Wardley, the originators of the sect in England, and in 1758 joined the small society they had formed. In 1770 she pretended to have received a revelation, while confined in prison on account of her religious fanaticism; and so great were the spiritual gifts she was believed to possess, that she was soon acknowledged a spirtual mother in Christ. Hence her name of Mother Ann. She and her husband came to New York in 1774. He soon afterward abandoned her and her faith, and married another woman. She collected a few followers, and in 1776 took up her abode in the woods of Watervliet, near Niskayuna, in the neighborhood of Troy. By some she was charged with witchcraft; and, because she was opposed to war, she was accused of secret correspondence with the British. A charge of high reason was preferred against her, and she was imprisoned in Albany during the summer. In the fall it was concluded to send her to New York, and banish her to the British army, but circumstances prevented the accomplishment of the design, and she was imprisoned in the Poughkeepsie jail until Governor Clinton, in 1777, hearing of her situation, released her. She returned to Watervliet, and her followers greatly increased. She died there in 1784, aged eighty-four years. Her followers sincerely believe that she now occupies that form or figure which John saw in his vision, standing beside the Savior.

Vankleek House

The Vankleek House. It was built by Myndert Vankleek, one of the first settlers in Dutchess county,…

"The Walnut Street Prison. This edifice was erected in 1774, and taken down in 1836. The beautiful new Athenaeum occupies a portion of the ground on Sixth Street, and the remainder is covered by elegant dwellings. It is a singular fact that the architect who constructed it was the first person incarcerated in it. He was a Whig, and, having incurred the displeasure of the British, he was locked up in that prison. The <em>Public Ledger</em> of June 26th, 1837, gives an account of an armorial drawing, representing, in bold relief, a cuirass, casque, gorget, and Roman battle-ax, with radiating spears, which was made upon an arch of one of the second story cells, by Marshall, an English engraver, who was confined there for many years for counterfeiting the notes of the United States Bank. He was the son of the notorious 'Bag and Hatchet Woman,' of St. Giles's, London, who followed the British army in its Continental campaigns, and gathered spoils from the slain and wounded on the field of battle. Those who were dead, were readily plundered, and the wounded as readily dispatched. This woman and son were master-spirits in the purlieus of St. Giles's, among robbers and counterfeiters. The gang were at length betrayed, and the parent and child fled to this country, bringing with them considerable wealth in money and jewels. They lived in splendid style in Philadelphia, riding in a gorgeous cream-colored phaeton, drawn by richly-caparisoned horses, driven tandem. Their means were soon exhausted, when the son married, and commenced business as an engraver. He counterfeited notes of the United States Bank, was detected, and in 1803 was sentenced to eighteen years' confinement and hard labor in the Walnut Street Prison, then the State Penitentiary. While he was in prison, his mother, who had wondered away from Philadelphia in poverty and destitution, was executed in another state for a foul murder and arson."—Lossing, 1851

Walnut Street Prison

"The Walnut Street Prison. This edifice was erected in 1774, and taken down in 1836. The beautiful new…

"Edgar Allan Poe, the son of a Baltimore gentleman and an actress, Elizabeth Arnold, was born in Boston, January 19, 1809. He was left an orphan when three years old, and was adopted by a wealthy merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who gave him his own name for a middle name. Poe was well educated by his foster father and sent to the University of Virginia, but he was an ungovernable, wayward youth, keenly intellectual, brilliant, and restless. He ran into debt, enlisted in the army under an assumed name, published a small volume of poems, was for a while at West Point, and finally, thrown on his own resources, became editor of one magazine after another, married a mere girl, and came under the strong sane influence of her mother. He died finally in poverty and degradation, October 8, 1849, but he had written poems and tales which the world will not let die."&mdash;Scudder, 1897

Edgar Allan Poe

"Edgar Allan Poe, the son of a Baltimore gentleman and an actress, Elizabeth Arnold, was born in Boston,…

"Furnishes the fines pearls; the shells are also imported in vast quanities, the inner layer, known as "mother of pearl", being used for a great number of ornamental purposes." &mdash; Goodrich, 1859

Pearl-oyster

"Furnishes the fines pearls; the shells are also imported in vast quanities, the inner layer, known…

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) of Devon in England was a half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh (they had the same mother, Catherine Champernowne), and cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. Adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier, he served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) of Devon in England was a half-brother of Sir Walter…

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which the most important is the common hive or honey bee (apis mellifica). It belongs to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, but is now naturalized in the Western. A hive commonly consists of one mother or queen, from 600 to 800 males or drones, and from 15,000 to 20,000 working bees, formerly termed neuters, but now known to be imperfectly developed females. The humblebees, or bumblebees, of which over 60 species are found in North America, belong to the genus bombus, which is almost world wide in its distribution. "&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Drone Bee

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which…

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which the most important is the common hive or honey bee (apis mellifica). It belongs to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, but is now naturalized in the Western. A hive commonly consists of one mother or queen, from 600 to 800 males or drones, and from 15,000 to 20,000 working bees, formerly termed neuters, but now known to be imperfectly developed females. The humblebees, or bumblebees, of which over 60 species are found in North America, belong to the genus bombus, which is almost world wide in its distribution. "&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Queen Bee

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which…

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which the most important is the common hive or honey bee (apis mellifica). It belongs to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, but is now naturalized in the Western. A hive commonly consists of one mother or queen, from 600 to 800 males or drones, and from 15,000 to 20,000 working bees, formerly termed neuters, but now known to be imperfectly developed females. The humblebees, or bumblebees, of which over 60 species are found in North America, belong to the genus bombus, which is almost world wide in its distribution. "&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Worker Bee

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which…

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which the most important is the common hive or honey bee (apis mellifica). It belongs to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, but is now naturalized in the Western. A hive commonly consists of one mother or queen, from 600 to 800 males or drones, and from 15,000 to 20,000 working bees, formerly termed neuters, but now known to be imperfectly developed females. The humblebees, or bumblebees, of which over 60 species are found in North America, belong to the genus bombus, which is almost world wide in its distribution. "&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Royal Cells

"Bee is the common name given to a large family of hymenopterous or membranous-winged insects, of which…

"When grown up, Oedipus is told by the oracle that he would slay his father and marry his mother. On his return to Corinth he met Laius in a narrow pass and, in a dispute about the road, slew him." &mdash; The Delphian Society, 1913

Death of Laius

"When grown up, Oedipus is told by the oracle that he would slay his father and marry his mother. On…

Mother and child from "Search for a Good Child."

Mother with Child

Mother and child from "Search for a Good Child."

"Petrel is a popular name for certain small oceanic birds of dusky plumage, nocturnal in habit, widely distributed but most abundant in the Southern Hemisphere. The term stormy petrel is more exclusively applied to the Thalassidroma pelagica, a bird which seems to run in a remarkable manner along the surface of the sea, where it picks up its food. This species was well known to sailors as Mother Carey's chickens (q. v.), and their appearance is supposed to foretell a storm."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Stormy Petrel

"Petrel is a popular name for certain small oceanic birds of dusky plumage, nocturnal in habit, widely…

Little Carl and his mother in "The King's Birthday."

Little Carl

Little Carl and his mother in "The King's Birthday."

Mother Stork from "The Storks."

Mother Stork

Mother Stork from "The Storks."

Storks carrying babies, from "The Storks."

Storks with babies

Storks carrying babies, from "The Storks."

Scene where the children are with the Storks, from "The Storks."

Children with the Storks

Scene where the children are with the Storks, from "The Storks."

Rock-a-by baby and mother.

Rock-a-by Baby

Rock-a-by baby and mother.

Baby waking its mother

Baby waking mother

Baby waking its mother

Mother feeding her baby

Baby Being Fed

Mother feeding her baby

Mother holding her baby

Baby Being Held

Mother holding her baby

Mother dressing her baby

Baby Being Dressed

Mother dressing her baby

Scene from "Why the Bear's Tail is Short."

Fox and Mother Bear

Scene from "Why the Bear's Tail is Short."

Frame of mother, child, and elves, from the story, "The Changeling."

Changeling

Frame of mother, child, and elves, from the story, "The Changeling."

"Aristotle was born in 384 B.C., at Stagira, a seaport town of Chalcidice, whence he is frequeently called the Stagirite. At the age of 17, Aristotle, who had then lost both father and mother, repaired to Athens. Plato considered him his best scholar, and called him "the intellect of his school."" — Smith, 1882

Aristotle

"Aristotle was born in 384 B.C., at Stagira, a seaport town of Chalcidice, whence he is frequeently…

"By a beautiful image, the mother herself, who is so deeply interested in the fortunes of her son, is to be the immediate agent in effecting his deification after death. The enrolment of a mortal among the gods was termed his <em>apotheosis.</em>" &mdash; Anthon, 1891

Apotheosis of Germanicus

"By a beautiful image, the mother herself, who is so deeply interested in the fortunes of her son, is…

An elf eating a pie, from "Mother Goose."

Elf

An elf eating a pie, from "Mother Goose."

An elf making a pie, from "Mother Goose."

Elf

An elf making a pie, from "Mother Goose."

An elf with a pie, from "Mother Goose."

Elf

An elf with a pie, from "Mother Goose."

An elf with a pie, from "Mother Goose."

Elf

An elf with a pie, from "Mother Goose."

"A casket, a jewel-box. Quintilian produces this term as an example of catachresis, because it properly denoted that which was made of box, but was applied to things of similar form and use made of any other material. In fact, the caskets in which the ladies of ancient times kept their jewels and other ornaments, were made of gold, silver, ivory, mother of pearl, tortoise shell, etc. They were also much enriched with sculpture. A silver coffer, two feet long, one and a half wide, and one deep, most elaborately adorned with figures in bar-relief, is described by Bottiger. The annexed woodcut, from the antique, represents a plain jewel-box, out of which a dove is extracting a riband or fillet." &mdash; Smith, 1873

Pyxis

"A casket, a jewel-box. Quintilian produces this term as an example of catachresis, because it properly…

She was the mother of Proserpine and according to some phases of the myth of Bachus.

Ceres

She was the mother of Proserpine and according to some phases of the myth of Bachus.

Mother and her children.

Mother

Mother and her children.

Old Mother Niddity Nod, from a nursery rhyme.

Mother Niddity

Old Mother Niddity Nod, from a nursery rhyme.

Up, little baby, stand up clear; Mother will hold you, do not fear; Dimple and smile, and chuckle and crow! There, little baby, now you know!

Up Little Baby

Up, little baby, stand up clear; Mother will hold you, do not fear; Dimple and smile, and chuckle and…

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone; But when she came there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog had none.

Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone; But when she came there, the cupboard…

I'll tell you a story about Old Mother Morey; and now my story's begun; I'll tell you another about Jack, her brother, and now by story's done.

Mother Morey

I'll tell you a story about Old Mother Morey; and now my story's begun; I'll tell you another about…

Three little kittens lost their mittens; And they began to cry, "Oh! mother dear, we really fear that we have lost our mittens!" "Lost your mittens! You naughty kittens! Then you shall have no pie." "Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow." "No; you shall have no pie." "Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow."

Lost Your Mittens

Three little kittens lost their mittens; And they began to cry, "Oh! mother dear, we really fear that…

Child and mother sitting together

Child and Mother

Child and mother sitting together

Men talking to a mother and her son

Men

Men talking to a mother and her son

A mother reading to her son

Story Time

A mother reading to her son

A baby and its mother

Baby

A baby and its mother