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Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others
by William StukeleyHistory is political wisdom, philosophy is religious. The one consists in the knowledge of memorable things, and application of that knowledge to the good conduct of life: in embracing the good, and avoiding the ill consequences and examples of actions. So the other teaches us to entertain worthy notions of the supreme being, and the studying to ob..
The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
by Otto H. AdamsThe story of the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum began ten years ago. The progression of events between the first consideration of the memorial in 1944 and its completion in 1952 was by no means smooth and uninterrupted. The account of the solution of the problems involved in planning, financing, and constructing the memorial constitutes a commu..
The Origin of the Mound Builders
by Alfred Oscar CoffinLet any traveler start from Wisconsin and traverse the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf of Mexico, and cross the country from the Alleghenies to the Western Plateau, and throughout his course he will find thousands of mounds of earth with a conical or pyramidal apex, and containing within their interior relics of human remains and inventions.When a t..
Londinium, Architecture and the Crafts
by W. R. LethabyIt is curious that Roman buildings and crafts in Britain have hardly been studied as part of the story of our national art. The subject has been neglected by architects and left aside for antiquaries. Yet when this story is fully written, it will appear how important it is as history, and how suggestive in the fields of practice. This provincial Ro..
Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico
by Marshall H. SavilleThe writer has undertaken the present study of Mexican Turquois Mosaics in honor of the approaching opening to the public of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the only institution devoted exclusively to the study of the aboriginal American peoples ever established; and the proximate International Congress of Americanists to be hel..
The North Americans of Antiquity
by John T. ShortThe growing interest in the origin, migrations and life of the races of American Antiquity has led me to believe that the subjects considered in these pages would meet with the favorable attention of the public and of the specialist in this field. With such a conviction I present this volume, realizing the difficulties which attend any efforts to e..
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 Thousand Buddhas
by Sir Aurel SteinThe purpose of this publication is to place before students interested in Eastern art reproductions of select specimens from among the great collection of ancient Buddhist paintings which in the course of the explorations of my second Central-Asian journey, carried out in 1906–8 under the orders of the Government of India, I had the good fortune to..