(George) Washington as a freemason

(George) Washington as a freemason.

(George) Washington as a freemason.

Author:  Hines Strobridge

Publisher: Cincinnati : Strobridge & Co., 1867.

Edition/Format:   Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : English

Summary: 

Full length portrait of George Washington in free mason attire (banner, apron and gavel in right hand). Above a text which reads: "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." Below there is a caption of "Extracts from the records of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania, May 20, 1768."

Salome :: by Henri Rengault --- 1870

 Salome

1870 - Henri Regnault--(France)

Regnault initially represented this Italian model as an African woman, but later enlarged his canvas at the bottom and right and transformed it into a representation of the biblical temptress Salome. Hair ruffled, clothes in disarray, she has just danced for her stepfather Herod, governor of Judea. The platter and knife allude to her reward: the severed head of John the Baptist. Just months after this picture’s sensational debut at the Salon of 1870, the young Regnault was killed in the Franco-Prussian War. His posthumous fame was such that an outcry arose when the painting left France for America in 1912.

David Ramsay, Indian Slayer (1904)

 The story of David Ramsay, trapper, smuggler, and Indian slayer on the shores of Lake Erie and the Niagara. (1904) by David Ramsay

This is page 1 of the 17 page book.

Photographs of Prostitutes after Arrests (1950s) From Assorted Digital Libraries.

 

A sale of English-beauties, in the East-Indies Author: James Gillray; William Holland; Gordon N Ray Publisher: [London] : Pub'd May 16th 1786, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt, [1786]

 

Summary:

Print shows a ship-load of English courtesans just arrived in Calcutta and being sold by an auctioneer who is probably intended to represent Mr. James Christie. The women are being inspected by Englishmen and orientals. The central figure is a bare breasted woman who gives her right hand to an Indian and her left hand to a stout Englishman, over whose head a little black boy holds a tall umbrella. Papers projecting from his pocket are inscribed 'Instructions for the Governor General'. An oriental smoking a long pipe holds up the petticoats of a woman in back view who puts her hand on the shoulder of an elderly man wearing a jeweled turban. The middle distance is crowded with figures; an enormously fat woman is being weighed in a scale opposite a barrel inscribed 'Lack of Rupees' which she slightly outweighs. On the right is the side of a high warehouse into the door of which a number of weeping women are crowding. Over the door is inscribed, 'Warehouse for unsaleable Goods from Europe NB: To be return'd by the next Ship'. In the foreground is a row of seven casks all inscribed 'Leake's Pills'; on them is a box inscribed 'Surgeons Instruments'. The auctioneer stands on a case inscribed 'British-Manufacture' and decorated with crossed birch-rods. Beside it is a smaller case supposed to contain books and inscribed 'For the Amusement of Military Gentlemen. Crazy Tales'; 'Pucelle'; 'Birchini's Dance'; 'Elements of Nature'; 'Female Flagellants Fanny Hill'; 'Sopha'; 'Moral Tales'. The auctioneer's desk is a bale placed on end and inscribed 'Mrs. Phillips (the original inventor) Leicester Field London. For the use of the Supreme Council.'

Skull of a prostitute who accompanied the army (Lithograph). Late 19th, or early 20th century.

 About this work:

Description:

Skull of a prostitute who accompanied the army and was reputed to be cruel and violent: frontal view. Lithograph.

Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.

This is a skull from Gall's collection. See no. 229 in the list produced by Ackerknecht and Vallois in 'Franz Joseph Gall, inventor of phrenology and his collection' (Wisconsin, 1956). The skull is discussed in Gall's 'Anatomie', vol IV, p. 239 and 266.

Lettering

Fig. 8. Scull of a public woman, remarkable for the depravity of her morals, her great propensity to steal and cruelty ...

Date of Work Unknown.

Speaking Rifle, the Indian Slayer (1865)

Speaking Rifle, the Indian Slayer

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Combined Summary:

Series: Dawley's Ten Penny Novels — no. 4

Hilton's Ten Cent Novels, 1st Series — no. 4

Date: 1865 (Hilton's Ten Cent Novels, 1st Series edition)

This book is an action adventure novel that tells the story of 'Speaking Rifle' a man who at some point in his life saw his parents slain by Indians, and he killed thousands of them in revenge. 

From the 1865 version of 'Dawley's Ten Penny Novel Collection.'

This book, and its narratives and themes share striking similarities to James Eldridge Quinlan's 1851 book, 'Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer.'