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The Colonnade of Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs.

10/29/20
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Colonnade, Congress, Hall, Saratoga, Springs, Bartlett

The Congress Hall has for many years held the palm of fashion among the rival Hotels of Saratoga.

Filed under 1840, 19th Century, America, Genre, North America
Tagged American Scenery, Architecture, Topography, Travel, William Henry Bartlett

The great imperial stone road from Peking to Chengtu.

10/28/20
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Chinese pictures: notes on photographs made in China by Isabella Lucy Bird.

Filed under 1900, 20th Century, Asia, China
Tagged Chinese customs, Chinese scenery, Chinese Theme, Isabella Lucy Bird, Landscape, Travel

Saratoga Lake. The beauty of the freshwater lake.

10/28/20
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Saratoga, Lake, Illustration, County, New York, Bartlett

The Mohawks believed that its stillness was sacred to the Great Spirit, and that, if a human voice uttered a sound upon its waters, the canoe of the offender would instantly sink.

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Tagged American Scenery, Landscape, Topography, Travel, William Henry Bartlett

The Rapids above the Falls of Niagara.

10/27/20
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No one who has not seen this spectacle of turbulent grandeur can conceive with what force the swift and overwhelming waters are flung upwards.

Filed under 1840, 19th Century, America, Canada, North America
Tagged American Scenery, Landscape, Topography, Travel, William Henry Bartlett

The Owlers of Romney Marsh, and the ancient export smuggling of wool.

10/27/20
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Romney, Marsh, Kent, East Sussex, Owlers, smugglers, England,

The Owlers sold wool out of England and secretly shipped it at night from the shores of Kent and Sussex.

Filed under 1720, 18th Century, England, Europe, Genre
Tagged Cultural history, National and Domestic History of England

The Campbell tartan in the collection of the Highland Society of London.

10/26/20
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Regimental dress 1793 to 1802. This is the only Campbell tartan in the collection made by the Highland Society of London in 1816-17.

Filed under 1793, 1802, 18th Century, 19th Century, Europe, Scotland
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The history of the Benedictines. The Order. The Habit. The Monastery.

10/26/20
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St. Benedict. His Rule. The habit of the monks. Propagation of the order. Cluny. Fulda. Bursfeld. English Benedictines. Benedictines in the United States.

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Tagged Ecclesiastical, Medieval costume, Monastic clothing

Franciscan Nuns. Congregations of the Third Order of St. Francis.

10/25/20
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Franciscan Nuns. Nuns of the Third Order, the Recollectines. The Observantines. The Third Order at Foligny, the Observantines. The Amadeists. The Franciscan Sisters at Heythuizen. The Sisters of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Filed under 13th Century, Ecclesiastical, Fashion History, Genre, Middle Ages
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Nuns of the order of St. Benedict. Benedict nuns of the perpetual adoration.

10/25/20
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History of Religious Orders. The Abbaye royale Notre-Dame de Fontevraud. Early nuns of the order. Our Lady of Calvary. Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

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Queen Mary’s harp or Lude Harp of the 15th century.

10/25/20
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Queen, Mary, Lude, Harp, Scottish, clarsach,

THIS venerable instrument, the least impaired Gaelic Harp existing, is known as Queen Mary’s Harp or Lude Harp and date back to the 15th century.

Filed under 15th Century, England, Europe, Middle Ages
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