Byzantine enamels in Mr. Pierpont Morgan's collection,

"Reprinted from the Burlington magazine."

Exhibition of etchings by Rembrandt from the J. Pierpont Morgan collection [by Frank Weitenkampf] Held at the New York Public Library November 1, 1917 to March 31, 1918.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the Gutmann collection of plate now the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esquire.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the loan exhibition of drawings & etchings by Rembrandt from the J. Pierpont Morgan collections;

Plates printed on both sides.

Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan : bronzes of the Renaissance and subsequent periods /

"Index of collections and former owners of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's bronzes": volume 2, page 45.

Reports of the Princeton University expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899 : J. B. Hatcher in charge /

Vol. 1 published 1903. Vols. 3 and 8, each in 2 parts, paged continuously.

Motor Winding Students at Work

This photo shows a classroom of students working on motors. Photograph is black and white.

A catechism geographical, historicall and chronologicall

Notebook of unlined pages holding a handwritten copy of Tutor Flynt's "Catechism" copied by Harvard student Hull Abbot (1702-1774, Harvard AB 1720). The volume lists questions and accompanying answers on various academic subjects.

John Thompson: Seeing through China

In 1848, Karl Marx predicted that a flow of cheap commodities would be the heavy artillery which would batter down all Chinese walls and open up the country to the west (Marx, 1978, p. 477). The Scottish photographer John Thomson (1837-1921) was both chronicler of and participant in the early moments of this process. Thomson was a commercial photographer who first arrived in the Far East in 1862. He earned the moniker of 'China' in a decade-long stay during which he photographed what he considered to be the key aspects of its culture and landscape. In this body of work, Illustrations of China and its People (first published in 1874) is perhaps the most comprehensive. It explores, through two hundred photographs and accompanying texts, a series of phenomena from the macro-scale of landscape, infrastructure and industry to the smaller scales of streetscapes, domestic spaces, individual portraits, and other details of everyday life. Despite his own description of the volumes as encyclopedic, Illustrations is geographically quite limited. Thomson's explorations into the hinterland proceed up the country’s principal rivers from those coastal ports which had already been wrested into western hands during the Opium Wars (of the 1840s) and subsequently opened up to trade. This is perhaps one of the reasons why Illustrations has been described as an explicitly colonial text, a guide-book for the prospective settler whose content offered the strategic knowledge of land, culture and natural resources necessary if the territorial advantages of the coastal periphery were to extended to the interior (Jeffrey, 1981, p. 64). It can also be argued, however, that Thomson’s volume offered justification for a potential colonial presence. Faced with a civilization whose history was as sophisticated as the west, it depicts a culture that is static and moribund, its addiction to traditional values an impediment to progress. While this is perhaps most explicit in the texts of Illustrations of China, it can also be seen in the images whose uniform chemical rendering also serves to make an essentially diverse culture seem homogenous. Yet it is these images that distinguish Illustrations from previous attempts to collate China’s culture and landscape. Here, the mechanical precision of his camera captures a reality that often subverts the colonial narrative, confounding stereotypes as Thomson’s mass-produced images allow another China to emerge.

A guide to the Mental deficiency act, 1913 : containing a legal and general exposition of the act, with suggestions to local authorities, managers and others for the organization and administration of the work dealing with the mental defective /

Mode of access: Internet.

Reminiscences of John Adye Curran, k.c., late county court judge and chairman of quarter sessions;

"They are published...to tell the story of the Invincible conspiracy and its true inwardness." cf. p. 294.

Gainsborough ; John Constable, R.A. /

Includes index.

Swinburne; an estimate,

Mode of access: Internet.

The literary and scientific class book, embracing the leading facts and principles of science with many difficult words explained at the heads of the lessons, and questions annexed for examination. Selected from the Rev. John Platts' Literary and scientific class book, and from various other sources.

"Select books" : p. vii-viii.

The literary and scientific class book : embracing the leading facts and principles of science, illustrated with engravings, with many difficult words explained at the heads of the lessons, and questions annexed for examination : designed as exercises for the reading and study of the higher classes in common schools : selected from the Rev. John Platts' Literary and scientific class book, and from various other sources and adapted to the wants and condition of youth in the United States / by Levi W. Leonard.

"Select books": p. vii-viii.