Cape Collection (page 39)

Drunken Blind Granny
Blind Granny: a half blind, drunken nuisance who would beg by using her paricularly long tongue to wash her blind eye then spend the money on drink. Poems were written about her!

Old Mother Goose Flying
Old Mother Goose flying her goose

Smoking Dress
Smoking du soir created by Anna of the Champs Elysees. A gentleman gallantly helps her out of her cape

Green Monkey (Bewick)
simis sabaea : Buffon calls it the CALLITRICHE. The hair on the upper body is green, the underside silver. It lives on the Cape Verde islands and parts of North Africa

Barbary Ape (Bewick)
Simia inuus...is wilder and more intractable than the others. It lives in most parts of Africa, from Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope

Hartbeest (Bewick)
Bewick says this is the most common of all the larger Gazelles, known in any part of Africa. This one comes from the region of the Cape

SPRAY AND PIRATES
Joshua Slocum defends his boat against Fuegian pirates while rounding Cape Horn in the course of his solo circumnavigation

SPRAY AT CAPE TOWN
Joshua Slocum shows the Spray to visitors at Cape Town, during his solo circumnavigation

Costume May 1869
Girl: over-skirt with apron front, fringing & bows. Brown polonaise with train & sleeves with volans; white dress with pelerine cape, sash bow & over-skirt raised at the back

Icy Siberian Coast
The icy coast at Cape Omman, Northern Siberia, where ships are wrecked but bears roam safely

Evening Cape / Doucet 1914
Fad for capes: a flounced evening cape by Doucet with large rosette buttons & fur collar; a tunic dress with a draped tango skirt, puffed tunic & a diagonal split

East Indiaman in Gale
An East Indiaman in a gale off the Cape of Good Hope

Social / London Policeman
Scene in a busy London street: a policeman wearing a white cape directs the traffic

Ww1 / 1915 / Gallipoli Clyde
The steamer River Clyde, at beach V, one of five points at Cape Helles where British forces were landed on 25th April

Transportation of meteorite found by Peary in Greenland
Transportation of a large iron meteorite found at Cape York, Greenland, by the American explorer Robert Edwin Peary, and taken for display purposes to the Museum of Natural History, New York. (2 of 2)

Meteorite found by Peary in Greenland
A large iron meteorite found at Cape York, Greenland, by the American explorer Robert Edwin Peary, and taken for display purposes to the Museum of Natural History, New York. (1 of 2)

View of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
A view of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa

Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin), southernmost tip of India
View of Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin), the southernmost tip of India

Atlantic Is. / Cape Verde
Saint Vincent discovered by Portuguese Date: 1463

MENs COATS 1828
Grey overcoat with cape & hip pockets. Brown D-B frock coat with gigot sleeves, shirt with stand collar & pointed cuffs, patterned cravat, top hat, cane & strapped pantaloons

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