EditorialPondo gossips. These girls are about fifteen or sixteen yeas of age. The bables are made of iron, and the ring on the head is of cloth, used to make a soft bed for the pots which the gilrs carry. The girl on the right has a skull-cap made of bead-work...
EditorialBilly Hammond, an undertaker and the mayor of Fair Bluff, N.C., which was devastated by flooding from Hurricane Matthew five yeas ago, on June 18, 2021. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialPondo gossips. These girls are about fifteen or sixteen yeas of age. The bables are made of iron, and the ring on the head is of cloth, used to make a soft bed for the pots which the gilrs carry. The girl on the right has a skull-cap made of bead-work...
EditorialA lithopedion, also known as "stone baby." Inscription reads: "A bony chalk foetus which was said to have lain in utero twenty-six yeas: Communicated to me by Monsieur Arneau owner of the french anatomy waxwork.". Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the ...