Howard Pyle Gallery

The Connecticut Settlers Entering the Western Reserve, 1795 (oil on canvas)

CH89270 The Connecticut Settlers Entering the Western Reserve, 1795 (oil on canvas) by Pyle, Howard (1853-1911); 41x61 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: In 1792, the Connecticut legislature granted 500,000 acres of the western portion of New Connecticut to those of her citizens whose property had been burned by the British during the war. These lands were called the "Fire Lands." On the 5th of September, 1795, Connecticut sold the remaining three million acres of land to 3 trustees for the Connecticut Land Company, which decided to extinguish all Indian title to the west of the Cuyahoga River and survey the land into townships five miles square. Moses Cleaveland was selected to head a surveying party of about fifty people. Cleaveland landed at Conneaut Creek on July 4, 1795. Surveying was completed the following year and the Western Reserve was ready for settlement
); Photo A© Christie's Images; American, out of copyright

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Albinus II, Pl. III, Cranial bone, illustration from Tabulae ossium humanorum

HMB306101 Albinus II, Pl. III, Cranial bone, illustration from Tabulae ossium humanorum, by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), published by J.&H. Verbeek, bibliop. 1753, Leiden, 1753 (engraving) by Wandelaar, Jan (1690-1759); 73x52.5 cm; Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin, Germany; (add.info.: Three diagrams of the inner skull: calvarium (or skullcap), the base of the skull and a side view; Drei Darstellungen des Inneren des Schaedels: Schaedeldach (o.I.), Schaedelbasis (o.r.) und lateral (u.);); A© Humboldt Innovation, Berlin ; A© Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin; Dutch, out of copyright

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Benjamin Disraeli making his first speech in the House (litho)

STC335858 Benjamin Disraeli making his first speech in the House (litho) by English School; Private Collection; (add.info.: Benjamin Disraeli (1840-81), Earl of Beaconsfield; Served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister;); The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

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British, C19th, Engraving, Great Britain, House Of Commons, Houses Of Parliament, Maiden Speech, Mzengraving, Orator, Politician, Victorian