"Series XVII. - 6. View from the Rock Top." This aerial view shows many buildings surrounding a pool, as well as the countryside around them. Additional information on the back notes that postcard profits benefit Industrial Schools in India.
The ruins of an ancient temple. Surrounding the plate is written Etenim Omnes Artes Quae ad Humanitatem Pertinent Habent Quasi Commune Vinculum et Cognatione Quadam Inter se Continentur.
"Old Observatory, Peking [Beijing]." Metal astronomical instruments are seen on top of the large stone structure. Three tall poles, possibly lightning rods, are positioned at the roof's corners. A road passes under the building through an arch.
A bearded man dressed in robes uses a pestle and mortar on a table in front of him. Above is a window showing a castle and other structures in the distance.
Subject (Name):
Cowan, Andrew
Subject (Topic):
Apothecaries, Buildings, Mortars and Pestles, and Pharmacy
The facade of a library building, flanked by a leafy, ribboned motif. At the top are two open books on shields, "Medicine" to the left, and "Surgery" to the right. At the lower right to the building image is an insignia with phrase Quaecumque Sunt Vera, 1851.
Subject (Name):
Archibald Church Library Northwestern Medical School
Subject (Topic):
Books, Buildings, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Northwestern University, Physicians, and Shield
A drawing the Ashford General Hospital, and the years 1858-1922 noted beneath. The text below reads: Here stood a famous hostelry affectionately known as The Old White. Once the pride of the Old Dominion, whose gracious hospitality, beautiful surroundings and healing waters gained national renown and made it the object of many a pilgrimage. Here gathered from the North and South great generals, famous statesmen and philanthropists, lovely ladies and reigning belles "who left upon the silent shore of memory images and precious thoughts that shall not die, and cannot be destroyed." Erected by its successor The Greenbrier 1940.
Subject (Name):
Ashford General Hospital, Greenbrier, Ashford General Hosptial, and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Ashford General Hospital, Buildings, Hospitals, and World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--West Virginia--White Sulphur Springs
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Trimmed to plate., Below title: See Pennant's 3d. Edit., Original building was destroyed by World War II bombs, and rebuilt in 1969., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber Surgeon's Hall; Barber surgeons.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 20th. 1800, by John Manson, No.6 Pall Mall
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"Het noviciaat der Paters Jezuïten te Drongen-bij-Gent. Na zijn noviciaat, op den dag zelve zijner Eerste Geloften, vertrok Pater Lievens naar de missie van Calcutta in Engelsch-Indië (22 Oct. 1880)." The building of the novitiate of the Jesuit Fathers between Drongen and Gent stands across from a river. Additional information directs donations for Indian mission work to Leuven, Netherlands.
