USS 'Alabama', American battleship embroideress introducing his old nanny goat

introducing his old nanny goat into high company'

View of a glass works furnace in operation with glassworkers shaping and blowing molten glass

with a horse-drawn carriage

A satire linking the cult of Vitruvius (which deduces laws of composition and canons of beauty from the measurements of ancient columns and statues) with the preposterous hairdos of the beau monde

Her father - a City alderman - removes the ring from her finger

USS 'Alabama', American battleship embroideress introducing his old nanny goatUSS 'Alabama', American battleship, 1898. An 'Illinois' class pre dreadnought battleship, 'Alabama' was launched in 1898. She served with the US North Atlantic Fleet and in 1907 sailed with the 'Great White Fleet' of battleships sent on a circumnavigation of the world by President Theodore Roosevelt to show off America's growing sea power. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book