Description | English: “Avaunt! Approach not the Victim of thy Treachery, nor contaminate by thy unhallowed presence, the Sanctitude of this Assylum”: Frontispiece to a novel published in Pittsburgh in 1808 |
Date | 1808 |
Source | The Lawyer, or, Man as he ought not to be (https://archive.org/details/lawyerormanasheo00watt/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Illustration credited to “Baralett”; engraver illegible |
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Dr. Franklin’s Kite
Description |
English: An 1840 illustration of Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment
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Date | |
Source | The Youth’s Book on Natural Theology, 1840 (https://archive.org/stream/youthsbookonnatu00gall_1#page/n188/mode/1up) |
Author | Unknown engraver |