1889 Gallery

Landore Viaduct construction, near Swansea, South Wales

View of construction work on the Landore Viaduct, over the Swansea valley and the River Tawe, on the Great Western Railway, Glamorgan, South Wales. The original timber viaduct was designed by Brunel, and completed in 1852. The new structure, completed in 1889, used wrought iron for the central span

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1850s, 1852, 1880s, 1887, 1889, Brunel, Building, Central, Construction, Engineering, Girder, Girders, Glamorgan, Great, Gwr, Historical, History, Hut, Iron, Landore, Metal, New, Railway, River, South, Span, Structure, Swansea, Tawe, Timber, Valley, Viaduct, Victorian, Wales, Welsh, Western, Wood, Wooden, Work, Wrought

Music cover for Two Marionettes Polka

Music cover for Two Marionettes Polka, composed by May Ostlere. Two puppets (without strings!) are depicted dancing on a small stage, framed by red and gold curtains. A mouse in the lower right corner is imitating them. The female dancer on the left is wearing a frilly bonnet, stripy blouse and spotty apron. The male dancer on the right is dressed in a red and white pierrot costume

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Judaism. Torah scroll case wrapped in black. Libya, 1889

Judaism. Torah scroll case wrapped in black. Libya, 1889. Carved wood and cotton. Case: Gift of the Moshav movement, through Rabbi Menahem Hacohen and Bracha Yaniv, Survey of Synagogues, The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Wrapper: Gift or Dr. Naouri from the Synagogue of Tripoli, Rome. Israel Museum. Jerusalem

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