USS 'Alabama', American battleship embroideress View of a glass works

View of a glass works furnace in operation with glassworkers shaping and blowing molten glass

with a horse-drawn carriage

A satire linking the cult of Vitruvius (which deduces laws of composition and canons of beauty from the measurements of ancient columns and statues) with the preposterous hairdos of the beau monde

' Plate 25 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature

Indianapolis 500 Mile Race

USS 'Alabama', American battleship embroideress View of a glass worksUSS 'Alabama', American battleship, 1898. An 'Illinois' class pre dreadnought battleship, 'Alabama' was launched in 1898. She served with the US North Atlantic Fleet and in 1907 sailed with the 'Great White Fleet' of battleships sent on a circumnavigation of the world by President Theodore Roosevelt to show off America's growing sea power. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book