EditorialLogo design - Jakas Soft Toys, Melbourne, 1995-1998, Enlarged colour print of the Jakas Soft Toys logo design. Jakas Soft Toys was a Melbourne-based company which designed and manufactured genuine high quality soft toys from 1956. Their range included ...
EditorialDiorama of a Slave Dance Diorama of a Slave Dance Diorama of a slave dance Diorama of a slave dance, The wooden case has a rising bottom and a curved back and top on the inside. The back wall is covered with painted paper with a forest and a blue sky w...
EditorialRailway co-operation. An investigation of railway traffic associations and a discussion of the degree and form of co-operation that should be granted competing railways in the United States : Langstroth, Charles Souder.
EditorialNegative - 'Good luck Bulldogs', Footscray, Victoria, 1954, Black and white image of John Tait hanging a sign outside Kidd's Hardware reading 'Good luck Bulldogs'. The Footscray Football Club, the Bulldogs, were competing in the 1954 Victorian Football...
EditorialIchikawa Kodanji ????? in the role of Shimizu Seigen???? and Onoe Kikugoro ????? as Princess Sakura ??, Utagawa Kunisada ???? (Japanese, 1786-1864), Edo, 1858, color woodblock print, 14-5/8 x 9-7/16 in., 1. Signature: Toyokuni ga ??? in toshidama carto...
EditorialNegative - Beaufort, Victoria, circa 1910, A panoramic view of the street in front of J. R. Wotherspoon, produce merchants. A number of bands competing in a competition are drawn up in front of the store.
EditorialPhilanthus, Print, Beewolves (genus Philanthus), also known as bee-hunters or bee-killer wasps, are solitary, predatory wasps, most of which prey on bees, hence their common name. The adult females dig tunnels in the ground for nesting, while the terri...
EditorialImage from a sporting calendar. March. The racing season. Three horses and riders competing. . Almanac of Sports for 1897. London England 1898. Illustration by Rudyard Kinpling. One of an edition of twenty copies. Source: Kipling file 546. Language: En...
EditorialVase (pot ? fleurs), ca. 1749, French, Vincennes, Soft-paste porcelain, Height: 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, A large measure of the quickly established success of the Vincennes factory was due to the high quality of its porcelain paste, whi...
EditorialImage from a sporting calendar. March. The racing season. Three horses and riders competing. . Almanac of Sports for 1897. London England 1898. Illustration by Rudyard Kinpling. One of an edition of twenty copies. Source: Kipling file 546. Language: En...
EditorialPhotographs of various international athletes competing in the 1908 Olympic Games. A shot putter; Gymnastic team; swimmer; runners, and a discus thrower. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. 25th July 1908. Source: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic ...
Editorial'The world's champion sportsmen at the great Olympic gathering in London'. Photographs of various athletes competing at the 1908 Olympic games. The Sphere. 18-Jul-08. Source: The Sphere 18 July 1908, pp.60-61.
EditorialRaymond "Ray" Clarence Ewry (1873 – 1937) was an American track and field athlete who won 8 gold medals at the Olympic Games and 2 gold medals at the "Intercalated Games" (1906 in Athens). This puts him among the most successful Olympians of all time...
EditorialVase (pot ? fleurs), ca. 1749, French, Vincennes, Soft-paste porcelain, Height: 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, A large measure of the quickly established success of the Vincennes factory was due to the high quality of its porcelain paste, whi...
EditorialPolestar Deity Kui Xing, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), 16th?17th century, China, Leaded tin brass; lost-wax cast, H. 9 1/2 in. (24 cm), Sculpture, The Pole Star, a popular religious figure associated with the Lord of Literature (Wen Chang Dijun), was the t...
EditorialJar, Five Dynasties (907?960), 10th century, China, Porcelain with incised decoration under transparent glaze (Xing ware), H. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm), Ceramics, The inscription reading xin guan, or ?new official ware,? carved into the bottom of this small j...
EditorialRiff-raff competing for bread and wine at the Fete of St. Louis. Evening of the Fete of St. Louis, or Dick, Jenkins and the Halibuts witnessing the Canaille in all their glory. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's ...
EditorialThe great footrace for the presidential purse (100,000 and picking) over the Union Course 1852; N. Currier (Firm),; N.Y. : For sale, by Nathaniel Currier, at no. 2 Spruce St, 1852; 1 print on wove paper : lithograph. Satire on the presidential election...
EditorialCOACHING, A SKETCH AT CHISWICK, The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights on the River Thames in London, England, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, b...
EditorialTHE CEDARS, PUTNEY, CAMBRIDGE HEADQUARTERS. The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights on the River Thames in London, England, ENGRAVING 1876, UK...
EditorialTHE FOX AND HOUNDS, PUTNEY, OXFORD HEAD-QUARTERS, The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights on the River Thames in London, England, ENGRAVING 18...
EditorialYoung shepherd, detail from a fresco showing a bucolic scene with two shepherds competing on the flute. From Magdalensberg, Celtic, later Roman capital of Noricum, Carinthia, Austria.