Arctic searching expedition: a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea
Gwitchin. Peoples of Alaska in 1850th.
Tag: Cultural history
The Garter. Orders of Knighthood.
A Knight of the Order of the Garter. British order of chivalry. The accompanying plate represents the dress of a Knight of the Garter about the time of Edward IV. or Richard III.
The court society of the castle gathers for a ride.
Miniature of the Breviary of Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Marciana Biblioteca of S.Marc, Venice. Fifteenth century.
Japanese Festivals and Holidays.
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs’ were collected during the years 1864-5, by Jacob Mortimer.
Italian Marine Band of Chicago 1893.
Italian Marine Band of Chicago which played at the World’s Columbian Exposition during the Fair season
Charles D’Anjou. French Capetian royal dynasty. 13th century.
Charles I of Anjou, a side branch of the French royal dynasty Capetian.
Tournament of Knights. 14th century. Medieval clothing.
Historical costumes from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by Camille Bonnard and Paul Mercuri
Portrait of King James I of England. Son of Mary Stuart.
James Stuart was as James VI from 1567 King of Scotland, and since 1603 until his death in addition as James I King of England and King of Ireland.
The Magic word Abracadabra as magical power.
Abracadabra. A charm. It is regarded as the word that in most languages has the same pronunciation.
The Death of Virginia. Lays of ancient Rome.
Lais of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lais, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.