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The Story of the House
by Orman Wesley KetchamThe Story of the House: Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. Ketcham. The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long side-wall The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks, The bricks, one after another, each laid so workmanlike in ..
The Book of History (Vol. 1 of 18)
by Various AuthorsThere is no need here to discuss the question how far it is possible to write a universal history, or on what lines such a history should proceed. These points may well be left where Lord Bryce leaves them in his introduction to this book. Nor need we consider what history is; the plain man may be left to make up his own mind as to that while the p..
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2
by Hugo MunsterbergThe psychologist will find quarters in all parts of Emerson Hall. The general courses in psychology will be held on the first floor in the large lecture-room, which has nearly four hundred seats; and close by are the psychological seminary-room and smaller lecture-rooms for the advanced psychological courses. On the second floor the psychologist fi..
Pueblo pottery making
by Carl E. GutheThe present paper is a careful study by Dr. Guthe of pottery making at San Ildefonso, a typical Pueblo Indian town on the Rio Grande, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The field-work was undertaken in 1921 as part of an archaeological survey of the Southwest, that has been carried on for a number of years by the Department of Archaeology of Phillips A..
The Strangest Things in the World
by Thomas R. HenryThe challenges of Nature’s paradoxes have been sharp spurs to man’s search for knowledge since the start of science. Fortunately the number of these paradoxes is infinite, and so the quests are endless. Man never will know a wonderless world. In the phenomena of life especially we have come only to the zone of morning twilight. The bright day of un..
Fifty Photographic Views of Plymouth
by John F. MurphyFifty Photographic Views of Plymouth contains Alden House, Boston Steamboat “Plymouth”, Bradford Monument, Burial Hill, Canopy over Plymouth Rock, Clarke, Grave of Thomas, Clark’s Island, Cole’s Blacksmith Shop, Cole’s Hill, Common House, Compact, County Court House, Court Street, Crow House, Cushman Monument, Departure of the Pilgrims—Paintin..
The Book of Stars
by Archie Frederick CollinsThe stars are the friends of everyone who knows them. If you have never stood out in the open and watched the stars on a clear night, you have missed the most wonderful sight to be seen from this little old mud ball of ours, and my advice to you is not to let another night go by without making friends with the stars.By the stars I mean everything i..
The Caddo Indians of Louisiana
by Clarence H. WebbNorthwestern Louisiana was occupied by the Caddo Indians during the period of early Spanish, French, and American contacts. By combining history and archaeology, the Caddo story can be traced back for a thousand years—a unique opportunity made possible by a long tradition of distinctive traits, especially in pottery forms and decorations. Our story..