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Primary Text: Cornish Pilchard Fishery
An 1872 text describing the methods used to catch and package pilchards along the Cornish coast of England.
Primary Source: The Management of Servants: A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service, Chapter 1: Introduction
Introduction to the manual for households employing domestic servants. Entire manual contains further reading chapters on categories such as "Households: Their Various Scales," "Engaging and Dismissing Servants," and "Opening the Door, and Announcing…
Portrait of Clovis Sagot (Portrait de Monsieur Sagot), 1909
A painting by French artist Pablo Picasso entitled "Portrait of Clovis Sagot," dated 1909.
Original cover of To The Lighthouse, Vanessa Bell. ca. 1927
Original cover of To The Lighthouse, printed from a woodcut done by Vanessa Bell. ca. 1927.
Oriental Woman (Femme d'Orient), ca. 1897
A painting by French artist Odilon Redon entitled "Oriental Woman (Femme d'Orient)," dated ca. 1897.
Mrs. St John Hutchinson (1915)
Painting, oil on board, by Vanessa Bell, entitled "Mrs. St John Hutchinson", ca. 1915
Manet and the Post-Impressionists
The cover to the catalogue for the exhibition "Manet and the Post-Impressionists," which took place between November 8th, 1910 through January 15th, 1911 at the Grafton Galleries in London. Roger Fry was on the exhibition's executive committee,…
Lighthouse Preservation
An editorial newspaper article asking for the Godrevy Lighthouse to be preserved despite the fact that it is no longer in use.
Landscape of Italy (Sienna) (Paysage d'Italie (Sienne)), ca. 1904
A painting by French artist Pierre Girieud entitled "Landscape of Italy (Sienna) (Paysage d'Italie (Sienne))," dated ca. 1904.
How the Old St. Ives Pilchard Seines Worked
A graphic showing how the St. Ives fishermen employed "seines" to bring in catches of pilchards.