Showing posts with label 1895. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1895. Show all posts

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Sunday, January 10, 2016

A Moonlight Frolic (1895)

“A Moonlight Frolic,” Illustration by David Ericson, St. Nicholas 22 (March 1895): 431.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Monday, September 7, 2015

We Could Feel the Engine Wheels Rise and Fall on the Twisting Rail (1895)

Cy Warman, “Railroading over an Earthquake: An American Engine-Driver’s Strange Experience of an Engine in Europe,” McClure’s Magazine V (October 1895): 417.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

It Will Be Quite Safe, I See (1895)

Julia Magruder, Illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson, The Princess Sonia (New York: The Century Co, 1895), 31.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Ah, I Have Made a Mistake, I See (1895)

Julia Magruder, “The Princess Sonia,” Illustrated by C.D. Gibson. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 50 (May 1895): 13.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury (1895)

Howard Pyle, The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes;  being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia; where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands (New York: The Century Company, 1895), 383.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Stung by the Remarks of Some Mischief-Makers, He Intruded Upon His Wife's Privacy, and Found Her in Mermaid Form Disporting Herself in Her Bath. She Gave One Piercing Shriek and Then Vanished For Ever. (1895)

Frederick Edward Hulme. Natural History: Lore and Legend : Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediæval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895).

Monday, May 26, 2014

One Can Easily Imagine That the Double Tail, Like the Twin Screws of an Ironclad or Ocean Liner, Might Be of Great Assistance in Steering. (1895)

Frederick Edward Hulme. Natural History: Lore and Legend : Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By-gone Beliefs, Gathered in from Divers Authorities, Ancient and Mediæval, of Varying Degrees of Reliability. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895).

Monday, May 19, 2014

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Now I'll Light Up and Be Happy (1895)

Ella MacMahon. A Modern Man. Illustrations by Ida Loverling. (New York: MacMillan and Company, 1895).

Monday, May 27, 2013

The Old Skin Begins to Swell (1895)

Louis Compton Miall. The Natural History of Acquatic Insects. (London: MacMillan and Company, 1895).

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Outgrowths of Chitinous Integument (1895)

Louis Compton Miall. The Natural History of Acquatic Insects. (London: MacMillan and Company, 1895).