[Women History][Women in Military] [Joan of Arc] Archive of 115 French postcards, ca. 1890–1930, documents the visual construction of Joan of Arc as armored military leader and nationalist symbol during the decades surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Third Republic, and the First World War. , documenting the military image and.....
[Cross-Dressing][Women Military] Joan of Arc engraving archive depicting the French military leader and martyr Jeanne d’Arc in iconic images of battle, persecution, and faith, ca. 1770-1850s. The prints focus on Joan’s leadership during the Hundred Years’ War and on the gender-bending aspects of her identity and dress that contributed to.....
Large missionary lantern slide archive documenting Protestant evangelical activity and African village life in West Africa during the early twentieth century, most plausibly within the Upper Guinea Coast region encompassing present day Sierra Leone or Liberia. The photographs record interactions between European or American missionaries and local communities during a......
[Taiwan] Missionary photograph album documenting Christian evangelical and educational work in Taiwan in 1950s and 1960s, created during the first post Civil War decade of Kuomintang rule on the island and reflecting the consolidation of the Republic of China government after 1949. Produced in the early Cold War context, when.....
[Prohibition][Law and Policy] Correspondence on Prohibition and enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment between a New York lawyer and a clergyman, 1926. Eleven letters consisting of 27 pages, exchanged between Rev. W. Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church in New York City and a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and Seymour van Santvoord.....
Pius VII, Pope. Writ of Excommunication of the Authors, Executors, and Instigators of the Usurpation of Rome, and of the States belonging to the Holy See, issued in 1809 during the conflict between the Papacy and the French Empire following Napoleon Bonaparte’s seizure of the Papal States. The document records.....
[Colonialism][Religion] Archive of letters by Dr. John A. Reuling recording his 1946 missionary work in Africa, across mid-century Portuguese, Belgian, British, and South African colonial systems, where evangelism was a tool of westernization and colonialism alongside education, public health, and agricultural training. Written during Reuling’s first year as Africa Secretary.....
Unpublished sepia-toned photograph of pilgrims journeying to Mecca, circa 1921, documents the material and spatial realities of the Hajj in the early twentieth century, during a period of geopolitical transition in the Arabian Peninsula following the First World War. The image captures a vast encampment of white tents set against.....
Neuendettelsau Mission (publisher). Bilder aus der Neuguinea Mission (late 1920s–mid 1930s) documents German Protestant missionary activity and Indigenous life in New Guinea during the interwar period following the end of formal German colonial rule. Produced as a cigarette card album with printed German captions, the work records village life, subsistence.....
Hindu religious life in India photo archive showing temple approaches, Ganges riverfront ghats, public ritual bathing, cremation rites, ascetic practice, and pilgrimage activity at Benares around the turn of the twentieth century. Benares, now Varanasi, has long been one of Hinduism’s sacred cities, with miles of steps descending to the.....
Engraved plate titled View Of The Temple of Mecca and accompanying Plan Of The Temple of Mecca, circa eighteenth century, represents an early modern European visual interpretation of the Kaaba and the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Islam’s most sacred site. Produced for inclusion in eighteenth-century printed works, including editions of.....
Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974 advance reading copy issued prior to the first edition, presenting a philosophical narrative that examines value, morality, and human experience through a cross country motorcycle journey. The work occupies a central place in late twentieth century American intellectual and.....
South Asia photo album recording Darjeeling, Nepal, Calcutta, and Agra in the 1960s, in a post Independence view of how religious life, urban crowding, tourism, and Himalayan community identity were being documented by a foreign traveler across India and Nepal. The album showcases the various landscapes of cultural and religious.....
Plato. The Greater Hippias, 1759 English translation presenting a key Socratic dialogue on the nature of beauty within the context of Enlightenment era engagement with classical philosophy. The work stages an exchange between Socrates and Hippias in which attempts to define beauty are systematically examined and rejected, illustrating the Socratic.....
Early twentieth century photograph documenting the Hajj pilgrimage at Mount Arafat near Mecca, one of the central ritual sites of the annual Islamic pilgrimage required of Muslims able to undertake the journey. The gathering at Mount Arafat, often called the “Standing at Arafat,” forms the spiritual climax of the Hajj.....
Southern India photo album documenting an international Christian missionary medical group around Vellore, Karigiri, Katpadi, and Kanchipuram in 1961, many photographs captioned and identify individuals. The album showcases how missionary labor operated after the end of British rule through hospitals, training schools, religious ceremony, and organized visits into village and.....
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Les Epistres de Seneque, 1663 French edition transmitting Stoic philosophical writings into early modern European intellectual culture and vernacular readership. Written in the final years of Seneca’s life, the epistles present sustained reflections on ethics, time, mortality, and the cultivation of wisdom, and circulated widely as a......
Hindu-Muslim unrest press archive depicting communal violence in India from the Partition crisis through later urban riots, 1947-1974. Partition created one of the largest migrations of the twentieth century, with millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs crossing newly drawn borders and hundreds of thousands killed in retaliatory violence. Independent India.....
Arnold, Edwin. The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation, 1879, presents a poetic narrative of the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha that contributed significantly to the introduction of Buddhist philosophy to Western audiences in the late nineteenth century. Written as an epic in verse, the work recounts the.....
Antique engraving of the Kaaba and Masjid Haram, in Mecca, titled: "De Kabba, of Het Huis Gods Te Mecca," from a Dutch travel account on Arabia and the Middle East, circa 1750. Size: 7.5" x 8." The engraving illustrates at its center the Kaaba and the surrounding domed structures as.....
[Buddhism] Dodsley, Robert, also sometimes attributed to the Earl of Chesterfield. Le Philosophe Indien, ou L'Art de Vivre Heureux dans la Societe. Renfermés dans un petit nombre de Preceptes les plus épurés de la Morale; redigé par un ancien Bramine [English:The economy of human life: translated from an Indian manuscript.....
MONTAIGNE, Michel de. Essays in Three Books. 1743. This eighteenth-century English edition of Montaigne’s Essays preserves one of the foundational texts of modern skepticism and introspective philosophy. First composed in the sixteenth century, Montaigne’s essays transformed European intellectual culture by replacing systematic doctrine with exploratory reflection—“attempts” or “essais”—that examined mortality.....
Mecca is the birthplace of prophet Muhammad and home to the Kaaba, the holiest site, while Medina is the second holiest city, where the Prophet's Mosque is located.Two original steel engravings titled “Medina et Sepulcre du Prophete” and “Temple de la Mecque,” issued in Picturesque Universe (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1847).....
[LGBTQ] Lesbian Minister Photo Archive of 4 Original Press Photographs. Included in this archive is one sepia-toned press photograph of lesbian minister, The Rev. Dr. Rose Mary Denman, and two original black and white silver gelatin press photographs of ordained lesbian minister, The Rev. Dr. Jane Spahr. Three measure 11".....
[Religion] [Children's Literature] Rev. Edmund S. Janes, D.D. Miniature Bible. With Engravings, Abridged and Collated. Philadelphia: Published at No. 2 Taylor's Alley by J. Harmstead and printed by S. Douglas Wyeth, circa 1840. Approximately 2" x 2.5" inches. Original embossed brown cloth covers. 203 pages. 18 engravings, including frontispiece, depicting.....
