THE SOUL OF RUSSIA. ILLUSTRATIONS. Nicolas Roerich. The Ancestors of Man. Décor de Théâtre. The Arrow of the Allies. After a painting by Leon Bakst.
THE SOUL OF RUSSIA. RUSSIAN ART, BY NICOLAS ROERICH.
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Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane. In the Arabic version of Thousand and One Nights this story was not yet contained.
Kazuma Ogawa. Costumes & customs in Japan.
Costumes & customs in Japan by Kazuma Ogawa. Tokyo 1892
“No. I, Iidamachi, Shichome, Kojimachiku, Tokyo, Japan.”
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). French actress
Sarah Bernhardt (actually Marie Henriette Rosine Bernardt) was a French actress. She is considered the most famous actress of her time.
Emma Hayden Eames (1865 – 1952) American opera singer.
Emma Hayden Eames (1865 – 1952) was an American opera singer (soprano) and vocal pedagogue. Leading member of the “Met”.
Geoffrey Chaucer. English writer and poet.
DAN Chaucer, as he is termed by some of our older writers, is the popular representative of the earlier period of English poetry; indeed he may be considered The Poet, par excellence, of the English Middle Ages.
Archimedes of Syracuse. Mathematician of antiquity.
Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek χρχιμήδης Archimēdēs) born around 287 BC probably in Syracuse; Died in 212 BC, was a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the most important mathematicians of antiquity.
Mindanao natives playing the Kutiyapi. Philippines.
The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is an indianized Filipino two-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is the only stringed instrument among the Maguindanao people, and one of several among other groups such as the Maranao and Manobo.
Italian Marine Band of Chicago 1893.
Italian Marine Band of Chicago which played at the World’s Columbian Exposition during the Fair season