Category: Historical Reference
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Grappling with the Grotesque
Jenny Anger Review of:Frances S. Connelly, The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image atPlay, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 190 pp., 62 b & w illus.,
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AMERICAN ENGRAVED POWDER HORNS
STEPHEN V. GRANCSAY A STUDY BASED ONTHE J. H. GRENVILLE GILBERT COLLECTION 1945
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Williamsburg – GateWay to the Past
James W. Wright American Tradition • The Journal of the Contemporary Longrifle Association • January 2010
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ADVANCED METAL-WORK. LESSONS ON THE SPEED-LATHE, ENGINE-LATHE, AND PLANING-MACHINE.
FOB THE USE OF TECHNICAL SCHOOLS,MANUAL-TRAINING SCHOOLS,AND AMATEURS.IN THREE PARTS.PART I. THE SPEED-LATHE ALFRED G. COMPTONANDJAMES H. DE &ROODT. FIRST EDITION.FIRST THOUSAND 1898
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Accessions – The Wisconsin Magazine of History
Source: The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Spring, 1961), pp. 232-239Published by: Wisconsin Historical Society Pair of antique Saxon wheellock pistols. These unique specimens, 30 inches in length, bear the marks of Zacharias Herold, court gunsmith at Dresden, 1584-1628, and of the gunsmith, Hans Fleischer, also active for the Saxonian court from…
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About the development of the Brescian wheellock in the last decades of the 16th century
Paolo De Montis Introduction One of Marco Morin’s most important contributions to hoplological literature was certainly his research into the German origin of the wheellock system, research often in conflict withthe studies of another eminent scholar, Claude Blair, according to whom the wheellock system was first created in Italy. The dating of the two sources…
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About the Agreement of 1476 between the Brussels Painters and Tapestry Weavers Concerning Cartoon Painting
Guy DELMARCEL n 1876, Alphonse Wauters, the archivist from the city of Brussels, published the first specific study devoted to the history of Brussels tapestries .[1] It was the outcome of his life long research in the city archives, and several very interesting documents were published in his book. Among them, he revealed an agreement…
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A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour
Illustrated from the collection formerly in the India Office, Now Exhibited at South Kensington, and the Author’s Private Collection. With a map, Twenty-Three Full-page Plates (Two Colored), and Numerous Woodcuts with An Introductory Sketch of the Military History of India by The Right Hon. Lord Egerton of Tatton, M.A., 1896 As the catalogue originally drawn…
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Ground-Truthing Excavations at Los Adaes (16NA16) May, 2010
George Avery Abstract In May 2010, Stephen F. Austin State University—funded by the Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)—conducted excavations at Los Adaes State Historic Site (16NA16) to ground-truth the results of a geophysical survey of the presidio area of the site conducted by ERDC CERL and the University…