Browse Items (86 total)
Sort by:
Rooks and Men: Allies of Civil Life
Article printed in the London Times dealing with the habits of rooks in British gardens.
"Grafton Gallery: Manet and the Post-Impressionists"
The cover to the exhibition catalog for "Manet and the Post-Impressionists," held at the Grafton Galleries from November 8th, 1910 to January 15th, 1911. The poster's image is based on an 1896 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin titled "Barbarian…
Gulls at St. Ives
Gulls fly around boats docked in a St. Ives port. Plate printed in The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall: With Forty-Nine Illustrations by A. L. Collins
St. Ives 1910, from "From Devon to St. Ives"
A photo taken of a beach town in St. Ives, Cornwall.
"Reasons Humbly Proposed"
A measure presented in Parliament in 1680 opposing a bill that restricted the use of drift-nets in coastal fishing.
The Work of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The history of Kew Gardens and its role in empire.
Trinity House Visitors Book for Godrevy Lighthouse
The page from the Godrevy Lighthouse visitors book with the signatures of the Stephens family, documenting their second visit in 1894.
"Pilchards"
An 1897 oil painting of Cornish fishermen using a "seine" net to catch a shoal of pilchards.
The War Cloud: Ferry Expected to Precipitate a War between France and China.
Newspaper clip that records the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Ferry (1832-1893), stating the possibility of the outbreak of war.
"The European War Cloud"
A poem in 1890 that describes the perpetual "hovering over" of the War Cloud in Europe.