The large plane-tree, Damascus. It is nearly forty feet in circumference. A peasant and his plough are resting against it, and in its shade a carperter is working, steadying his bow saw with his naked foot.

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A cup of coffee on the heights of Subeibeh. All the implements for preparing it are shown in the foreground - the iron saucer in which to roast the berries, the pestle and mortar for pounding them, and the water boiling on the fire of crackling twigs

One of the arches of an aqueduct over the Wady Kelt, plains of Jericho. The stream is popularly known as Brook Cherith

Hot baths of Tiberias (Hûmmâm Tûbarîyeh), with the town of Tiberias and Khân Minyeh in the distance. The interior of the public bath is shown, with its pierced dome and marble pavement.

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A threshing-floor. Peasants winnowing grain with large wooden forks, and a team dragging a sledge, the under surface of which is armed with sharp flints, to cut up the straw

Barbed wire and barbed wire fence covered by drifting sand, with tumbleweed growing up all around. This is in a section which in one day is reputed to reproduce forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Near Syracuse, Kansas

Section of the Big Tree, 30 feet in diameter, and House over the Stump, from the Sentinels.

The Horse Bazaar, Damascus, as it appears on market days. In the foreground is a Bedouin sheikh on horseback, fully equipped. Another Bedouin has just dismounted to greet a friend, exemplifying the words, "and he fell upon his neck and kissed him."

Son of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, carrying hay into barn to feed mule while his brother pitches down the hay from the loft above. Creek County, Oklahoma

The large stone in the quarry, Ba'albek called the Hajr el Hûbla. It is sixty-eight feet four inches in length. On the under side it is cut away all round, remaining attached to the bed of the rock in the middle along its entire length.

Side view of naked man standing with crutches to display shortened right leg with foot resting on a wooden object.

George Hutton working at the small sawmill which he built on his homestead farm. This sawmill serves not only his own needs, but many neighbors also use it. Pie Town, New Mexico

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common

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1881 - 1883

Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905), Author

Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924), Artist

Dana, William Jay (1839-1913), Wood engraver

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A cup of coffee on the heights of Subeibeh. All the implements for preparing it are shown in the foreground - the iron saucer in which to roast the berries, the pestle and mortar for pounding them, and the water boiling on the fire of crackling twigs

One of the arches of an aqueduct over the Wady Kelt, plains of Jericho. The stream is popularly known as Brook Cherith

Hot baths of Tiberias (Hûmmâm Tûbarîyeh), with the town of Tiberias and Khân Minyeh in the distance. The interior of the public bath is shown, with its pierced dome and marble pavement.

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A threshing-floor. Peasants winnowing grain with large wooden forks, and a team dragging a sledge, the under surface of which is armed with sharp flints, to cut up the straw

Barbed wire and barbed wire fence covered by drifting sand, with tumbleweed growing up all around. This is in a section which in one day is reputed to reproduce forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Near Syracuse, Kansas

Section of the Big Tree, 30 feet in diameter, and House over the Stump, from the Sentinels.

The Horse Bazaar, Damascus, as it appears on market days. In the foreground is a Bedouin sheikh on horseback, fully equipped. Another Bedouin has just dismounted to greet a friend, exemplifying the words, "and he fell upon his neck and kissed him."

Son of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, carrying hay into barn to feed mule while his brother pitches down the hay from the loft above. Creek County, Oklahoma

The large stone in the quarry, Ba'albek called the Hajr el Hûbla. It is sixty-eight feet four inches in length. On the under side it is cut away all round, remaining attached to the bed of the rock in the middle along its entire length.

Side view of naked man standing with crutches to display shortened right leg with foot resting on a wooden object.

George Hutton working at the small sawmill which he built on his homestead farm. This sawmill serves not only his own needs, but many neighbors also use it. Pie Town, New Mexico

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common

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label_outline Explore Dana William Jay 1839 1913 Wood Engraver, Damascus Syria, Peasant

In the shoe bazaar. This was formerly a school, an interesting building now in a very dilapadated condition. The gateway, however, is still preserved.

The temple at Deir el 'Ashâir. It stands on a platform of massive masonry, one hundred and twenty-six feet long by sixty-nine feet wide, and about twenty feet high on the eastern side, which faces Mount Hermon. The village is inhabited by a few families of Druses and Christians.

View from Ox Bow cliff, Barnet, Vt.

Grizzly Giant (101 feet in circumference), California.

Thèbes. Gournah, nécropole de Thèbes.

148. Jaffa. Vue de la mer., Israel

Abou Simbel, Nubia -- from the west

The rocks at Sarâbít el Khâdim ; and the temple enclosure. There are two temples, of different dates. The one not shown here is formed of two chambers excavated in the rock, having a walled continuation in front.

Section of the Original Big Tree, 92 ft. in circumference.

Wady-el-Jib, a characteristic example of a valley in the favoured territory of Ephraim. The olive-trees, shading the ancient foot-paths, proclaim that a village is near.

The shade of the palm - Public domain sheet music scan

[Studio portrait of unidentified woman dressed in a rouched jacket and large striped bow at neck.]

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