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Seal of a Female Importer of Oil and Wine
Bronze seal mentioning the name, in Latin and in Greek letters, of Coelia Mascellina, daughter of Cnaeus, a female importer of oil and wine from Spain, 2nd CE.
Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma, Italy.
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Seated Female with Child
Seated female with child, from the Necropolis de La Albuferata (Alicante), 4th BCE.
Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Alicante, Spain.
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Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini, depicted in his most romantic guise, with tousled hair and gaunt cheeks, the product of his reliance on mercury and opium. Lithograph by Nicolas Eustache and Antoine Maurin, based on a painting by Pingret in Baden in 1831...
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Illustrated Guide to Twelve Kinds of Kappa, c. mid-1800
A drawing of 12 kinds of kappa, a water sprite in Japanese mythology, drawn in the mid-1800s and written in Japanese as 水虎十二品之図.
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Hokusai's Kappa, a Japanese Water Sprite
A drawing of a kappa, a Japanese mythological water sprite, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) as part of his wider work, the Hokusai Manga, which he began publishing in 1812.
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Portrait of a Jicarilla-Apache Man
Portrait of a Jicarilla-Apache Man by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
The Jicarilla are one of the six bands that make up the Apache nation.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Chiricahua-Apache Medicine Man in Traditional Wickiup with Family, 1883
A Chiricahua-Apache medicine man in the traditional Apache dwelling of a wickiup with his family in 1883. The Chiricahua are one of the six bands of the Apache nation. Photograph by A. Frank Randall. Denver Public Library Special Collections...
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Isaac C. Haight
Isaac C. Haight (l. 1813-1886), best known for his orchestration of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 11 September 1857. He was never brought to justice.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre Site in 2010
Site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 11 September 1857 as seen from the 1990 monument in 2010.
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Brigham Young
Brigham Young (l. 1801-1877), leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) from 1847-1877.