The Oxbow Connecticut River Valley. Probably the richest view in America, in point of cultivation and fertile beauty, is that from Mount Holyoke.
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Notes on Fans. Wedding Fan presented to H.R.H. the Princess Mary.
Fan of pierced gold arabesque work, diamonds, rubies and emeralds, finely carved mother-of-pearl, richly inlaid with pure gold floral wreaths and Brussels lace.
Hindu Prayer-Carpet manufactured at Ahmedabad.
The Prayer-Carpet forming our present illustration, manufactured at Ahmedabad, was chosen for the Museum of Ornamental Art as one of the most faultless of these Indian productions.
The Trenton Falls of West Canada Creek by moonlight.
No pencil, no language, can describe the splendor with which the moon drew her light across the face of the Fall.
Gay Nineties. Couple in late victorian fashion of the 1890s.
This couple dressed in afternoon formal dress. Change that took place in feminine costume. It shows the new silhouette.
Ballroom costume of the late Louis XVI period with mask and fan.
This Ballroom costume contains almost every possible exaggeration that could be heaped upon an already overdeveloped style.
Niagara river in winter with wonderful combinations of ice and snow.
Niagara river in winter with one of those wonderful winter combinations of ice and snow
The Bamboo Cane, its origin and traditional use.
The Giant Thorney Bamboo. Nothing can exceed in beauty the graceful bamboo, as its feathery foliage waves and flutters in the breeze.
Sorrento, a coastal town in southwest Italy on the Bay of Naples.
For centuries, Sorrento has been the destination of northern European longing for Italy. Writers and painters have immortalised the place in words and pictures.
Parisian chapeaux from present flowery month of May 1867.
Sketches of real Parisian Chapeaux on the racecourse, in the Bois de Boulogne, in the Champs-Elysées, and other promenades.