Images

A cotton field jacket of the German Afrika Korps, panzagrenadier NCO. (Imperial War Museums)

Grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA, postcard by Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, MA, c. 1930-1945. Boston Public Library.

Ralph Waldo Emerson House, the long-time home of the transcendentalist essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Concord, Massachusetts, USA.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, albumen print by J. J. Hawes, copied from an 1857 daguerreotype portrait by A. S. Southworth & J. J. Hawes, 1880. George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.

An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, North-west of the river Ohio, a draft of the Ordinance of 1787. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Gold bowl depicting Dionysus, from Gandhara, c. 2nd century BCE. Islamabad Museum, Pakistan.

Neolithic clay altar figurine of a mother goddess from Tumba Madzari, North Macedonia, the second half of the 6th millennium BCE. Archaeological Museum of the Republic of Macedonia, Skopje. Tumba Madzari (lit. hill of the tomb...

A photograph taken in January 1943 showing Corporal John Henderson of the Scots Guards during the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa in the second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

The shoulder flash of the British 7th Armoured Division showing a jerboa, a small rodent with a long tail that is native to the deserts of North Africa and Asia. The badge gave the division its lasting nickname, the 'Desert Rats'. The division...

A photograph taken in October 1942 showing a British soldier watching the approach of a sandstorm in the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)