PCT4263761: Sioux invocation. Sanctuaries are most often large boulders of rolling stone or other rocks that [...] were charged with mythical significance. Priests and warlords went there to invoke the help of supernatural powers. The large block of stone on which this supplicator stands would have the power to reveal to the warrior the outcome of the raid he is planning. Its surface carries what the Indians call the footprint of the human foot and it is to this particularity that it must have become sacred. Photo taken from volume 3 of Edward S. Curtis's encyclopedia (1868-1952) on North American Indians, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263827: In the Badlands. This amazing image was made in Sheep Mountain, on the Pine Rige Reserve, Badlands, South Dakota. Photo taken from volume 3 of Edward S. Curtis's encyclopedia (1868-1952) on North American Indians, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267875: 19th century map of the department of Lot et Garonne, from the Atlas Migeon de Vuillemin. This map is accompanied by illustrations showing Agen's weapons, a view of the city and portraits of the two great men of the department: Bernard de Palissy, ne a Agen in 1500 and Bernard Germain Etienne de Laville-sur-Illon (Laville sur Illon), Count of Lacepede, politician and naturalist, friend and continuator of Buffon (1756-1825). / Bridgeman Images
PCT4268445: Moliere, Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Madame Jourdain discovers her husband Mr. Jourdain dresses as Mamamouchi. Engraving by Tony Johannot in the edition of the complete works, Paulin 1836. See the same scene represented by older prints: ref Gut2674 a 2676., Johannot, Tony (1803-52) / Bridgeman Images