Beard Collection (#98)

ELEAZER BEN SHAMMUA. Mishnaic teacher of the 4th generation. Marginal portait from a Greek Haggadah. Probably written in Crete, Greece, c1583

SAINT ANDREW. German woodcut, 1519, by Hans Baldung Grien

SAINT THOMAS. German woodcut, 1519, by Hans Baldung Grien

STEPHEN VII (d. 931). Pope, 928-931. Woodcut, Venetian, 1592

POPE GREGORY I (c540-604). Known as Gregory the Great. Pope, 590-604. Detail of an early 13th century fresco in the monastery of the Sacro Speco of Subiaco

JULIUS II (1443-1513). Pope, 1503-1513. Portrait detail from The Miracle of the Mass at Bolsena by Raphael. Fresco, 1512

ANABAPTIST FAMILY. An Anabaptist family of the Hutterite sect of central Europe. Woodcut, 16th century

SAINT JAMES MAJOR, 1519. Also known as Saint James the Greater and Saint James of Compostela. German woodcut, 1519, by Hans Baldung Grien

ENGLISH REFORMERS. From left to right: Nicholas Ridley (1500?-1555), Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), and Hugh Latimer (c1485-1555). Mezzotint by John Sartain after H. Lejune, 19th century

INITIAL A : SAINT GREGORY. Initial A with Saint Gregory (Pope Gregory I). Manuscript illumination from an Austrian missal, c1260

REMBRANDT: ST SIMON. Saint Simon the Apostle. Oil by Rembrandt van Rijn

ST. PAUL: CONVERSION. The conversion of St. Paul (Acts 9:3-5). Woodcut, c1508, by Hans Baldung Grien (c1485-1545)

ST. BARNABAS (1st century A. D. ). Apostolic Father of the Church
ST. BARNABAS (1st century A.D.). Apostolic Father of the Church. Mural from the Church of the Holy Cross, Platanistasa, Cyprus, 15th century

SAINT AMBROSE (339-397). Oil on cavnas, 1796-99, by Francisco Goya

SAINT JAMES OF COMPOSTELA. Also known as Saint James the Greater. One of the 12 apostles. Oil on panel, 1516, by Albrecht Durer

MORONI AND JOSEPH SMITH. The angel Moroni delivering the plates of the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith in western New York, 1827. Lithograph, 1886

DANCE OF DEATH, 1538. Death and the Old Man. Woodcut, French, 1547, after Hans Holbein the Younger from his Dance of Death, published in 1538

PROTESTANT REFORMERS. Detail of the Reformers from the Meienberg Epitaph, Blasiikirche, Nordhausen, Germany, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

HERMIT, 1430. Symbol of Prudence. Tarot card from Italian deck printed in Milan, Italy, c1430

FISHING, 1886. Smelt-fishing. Engraving after a drawing by J. MacDonald, 1886

SALMON FISHING, 1885. Salmon fishing in Canada. Engraving from a drawing by Dan Beard, 1885

AMERICAN HUNTERS, 1885. Hunters telling stories around a campfire. Engraving, American, 1885

FLORIS: THE FALCONER. Painting by Frans Floris, 16th century

MAGNETIZING IRON, 1600. A blacksmith hammering a heated iron bar to be magnetized, with its ends pointing towards the magnetic north and south poles

PHYSIOGNOMY, 1637. Forehead of an unintelligent man. Woodcut, 1637, from Ciro Spontinis Metoposcopia

PHYSIOGNOMY, 1637. Forehead of an immoderate and sick man. Woodcut, 1637, from Ciro Spontinis Metoposcopia

CHEMIST, 1857. A chemist using a blow torch. Lithograph, 1857

ASTRONOMY, c1250. The ancient Greek geometer Euclid (fl. c300 B.C.), observes the heavens through a dioptra (left), while Hermann of Carinthia

ASTRONOMERS, 1476. Woodcut from an edition of Rodericus Zamorensis Speculum Vitae Humanae, Augsburg, Germany, 1476

PTOLEMAIC UNIVERSE, 1559. Atlas holding up a geocentric universe. Woodcut from William Cunninghams Cosmographical Glasse, London, 1559

ARMILLARY SPHERE, 1514. Armillary sphere with zodiac. Woodcut from George Peuerbachs Tabulae eclipsicum, Vienna, 1514

ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564). Belgian anatomist. Woodcut from the first edition of Andreas Vesalius De Humani Corporis Fabrica, published in 1543 at Basel, Switzerland

CONSTELLATION: PERSEUS. Personification of Perseus. Woodcut from Gaius Julius Hyginus Poeticon Astronomicon, Venice, Italy, 1482

ARABIAN ASTRONOMER, 1519. An Arabian astronomer constructing a celestial globe. Woodcut from Aboul Hassan Alis Praeclarissimus in Juditijs Astrorum, Venice, 1519

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. Bell at the New York end of the first long-distance telephone call to Chicago, 18 October 1892

IOWA: PHOTOGRAPHER. Portrait of a western small-town photographer (Isaac Augustus Wetherby, 1819-1904) in his studio, Iowa City, Iowa, c1869

WORLD WAR I: DELEGATES. Allied delegates to the Peace Conference in Paris, France. Photographs, c1919

WORLD WAR I: COFFEE WAGON. German troops being served free coffee at a coffee wagon in Lotzen, East Prussia, during World War I. Photographed c1915

ALLEGORY OF ASTRONOMY. Astronomia, a personification of astronomy, with the Greek muse of astronomy, Urania, and the Alexandrian astronomer, Ptolemy

RAILROAD CAMP, 1880s. Camp of railroad construction workers engaged in building the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (later merged into the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe), 1880s

Tiepolos Oriental
Portrait of an Oriental by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, circa 1760. The man wears a turban, a belt with a gold buckle and a fur-trimmed robe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (1822-1893). 19th President of the United States. Wood engraving, American, 1893

CLEVELAND CABINET, 1893. President Grover Cleveland (left), 22nd and 24th President of the United States, with his cabinet at the start of his second term, March 1893

BATHHOUSE PROPRIETOR, 1568. The proprietor of a bathhouse removing a flea from a patron of his well-heated establishment. Woodcut, 1568, by Jost Amman

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1888. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton as the Republican party candidates for President and Vice President. Lithograph campaign poster by Sackett & Wilhelms, 1888

ELECTORAL COMMISSION, 1877. Members of the Electoral Commission convened in 1877 in order to resolve the presidential election of 1876, in which twenty electoral votes were disputed

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, SR. (1831-1878). American businessman and philanthropist. Oil on canvas, 1877, by Daniel Huntington

ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885). 18th President of the United States. Steel engraving, American, c1865, with autograph signature identifying himself as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army

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