Glimpses of the world; a portfolio of photographs by John Lawson Stoddard
Panorama of Paris in 1892 by John Lawson Stoddard.
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A shop and street in Chinatown of San Francisco.
A shop and street in Chinatown from a portfolio of photographs by John L. Stoddard and Old Chinatown by Arnold Genthe.
Camp of A Caravan on the Sahara Desert
Caravans glide over its surface like gigantic fleets. The beautiful, mysterious oasis. A veritable ocean the mighty desert is. It has the same succession of limitless horizons, the same dreary monotony.
Climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Gay Nineties. Late victorian fashion of the 1890s. In about fifteen minutes one can thus reach the summit of Cheops, which is now a platform about thirty feet square.
Nashik in India is one of the most sacred of Hindu towns.
Through this city flows the sacred river, Godavari, second in sanctity only to the Ganges itself.
New York and the Brooklyn Bridge. Late 19th Century.
The inhabitants of New York and Brooklyn find nothing special about this large bridge made of steel and iron that connects their cities.
The Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, Palestine.
At the base of the Mount of Olives is a small enclosure surrounded by a whitewashed wall. It is the reputed Garden of Gethsemane.
Ruins of Capernaum, Galilee, Palestine. Ancient city in Israel.
Capernaum (Kefar Nahum) is an ancient city in Galilee, located on the northwestern shores of Lake Tiberias, in Israel.