From Pinkey Perkins: Just a Boy. "'Thank you, Mr. Gordon,' replied Pinkey for the whole party,…
The engraving, Music from 'Mirrour of the World' by William Caxton, the first English printer.
This image depicts citizens along a narrow road in Spain. A woman rests in chair while donkeys walk…
"The following cut from an antique in the British Museum, represents the head of Neptune. The hair rises…
A cartoon of a newspaper editor sitting at a desk reading through a sack of letters.
An illustration of Sir Isaac Newton sitting on the ground being hit by an apple falling out of a tree…
This is an illustration of "The Arabian Nights" by artist J.D. Batten. It is a collection of pre-Islamic…
Man dressed as a caricature of a Viking with a winged helmet and blowing a horn.
An engraving by W. T. Green and Thomas Bolton, "O'erarched with Oaks that Form Fantastic Bowers." -Cundall,…
John F. Oberlin was a Alsatian pastor and philanthropist. Oberlin College, an American liberal arts…
In the Norse myth of the Mead of Poetry, a giant, Suttung, stole the mead, which is magical and makes…
"See here a man who doth true courage lack, / He flies apace - a wolf is on his track: / Nearer he comes…
A cartoon of an overweight man sitting on top of a smaller man, while holding a rope.
"For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them…
Perseus, the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty there, was the first of the mythic…
A cartoon of a pilgrim standing in front of a statue of a turkey, with a sign saying Plymouth Rock underneath…
"As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty. There I met a pretty miss, And she dropped me…
An illustration of a pirate sitting on a barrel eating a slice of pie.
A pixy named Thomas alarmed that a human has just invaded his lawn by jumping over Thomas' wall.
The engraved illustration of Poliphilo in the garden from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the first…
Pope Sixtus V (December 13, 1521 – August 27, 1590), born Felice Peretti di Montalto, was Pope…
"Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian. From a drawing by Dürer in the Albertina Gallery in Vienna."…
An illustration of a prisoner drilling a hole in the wall of his prison cell.
Publius Cornelius Scipio (died 211 BC) was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic. A member of…
This sign is used to indicate that a men's rest room is located nearby.