Words and Pictures From Old Books

Work on Siegesallee, or Victory Avenue, commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II, was finished in 1901, although the local p...

Here we see the ferryman, Charon, at left, bringing souls of the dead on his boat into the underworld. They are greeted by Hermes, ...

Two women are working on laundry at a wooden sink indoors, a third hanging clothes on a line. There is a pile of unwashed...

A. Schram: Theerosen.

We see a nun, hooded and with a long robe, at the foot of a grand spiral stairc...