EditorialDaniel McCarthy and Alana Ross, the parents of Everleigh Victoria McCarthy who died on Aug. 6, 2020, when she was less than 2 weeks old, in Boston, June 20, 2022. (Vanessa Leroy/The New York Times)
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: woven, Soiled white ground horizontally ribbed with incomplete repeat of a landscape setting. Left selvedge present., ca. 1740, woven textiles, Fragment.
EditorialPurse, Medium: silk, metal Technique: woven, Small envelope-shaped case. Very faded and soiled rose color with a woven design in silver. Symmetrical stylized design of flowers and foliage. Lined with cream white taffeta. Has been edged with very narrow...
EditorialIncense burner, Silvered brass, Platform resting on four ball feet; incurving corners with leaf ornaments. Gallery which is set back of flange on platform is pierced in leaf design with solid panels at corners. On the platform are two square blocks eac...
EditorialSidewall - fragment, Machine-printed on machine-made paper, Unprinted off-white or taupe ground paper. Very soiled, with dark streak across center. Small loss in middle of sample., possibly USA, 185060, Wallcoverings, Sidewall - fragment.
Editorial'The cooked-goose step. Grand march-past of the not wanted - Return to Germany of the Enemy's shop-soiled goods'. An cartoon showing German produced goods being returned and an appeal to use British made goods instead. Punch or the London charivari. Lo...
EditorialTowel cover from Switzerland. Such a decorative towel was used to cover soiled hand towels. The uppermost embroidery is a crown with flowers encircling the name of the family of Jacob Pessil. Linen with wool embroidery, 150 x 35 cm.
EditorialPhotograph - Kodak, Shopfront Display, 'Sale of Shop Soiled Kodaks', circa 1934-1936, Shopfront display 'Sale of Shop Soiled Kodaks' showing cameras, photographs, photographic accessories and equipment. One of fifty-six photographs in an album depictin...
EditorialCeleus flavus, Print, The cream-colored woodpecker (Celeus flavus) is unmistakably recognizable by its pale but distinct yellow plumage and beak, long erect crest, dark brown wings and black tail. The male is differentiated by the female by its thick b...
EditorialCeleus flavus, Print, The cream-colored woodpecker (Celeus flavus) is unmistakably recognizable by its pale but distinct yellow plumage and beak, long erect crest, dark brown wings and black tail. The male is differentiated by the female by its thick b...
Editorial'The cooked-goose step. Grand march-past of the not wanted - Return to Germany of the Enemy's shop-soiled goods'. An cartoon showing German produced goods being returned and an appeal to use British made goods instead. Punch or the London charivari. Lo...
EditorialA return from a march or a false alarm in a country village, engraving 1799, a group of British citizens mustered in response to an alarm that the French were attacking England which proved to be false; they complain of soiled, torn, or lost clothing, ...
EditorialA return from a march or a false alarm in a country village, engraving 1799, a group of British citizens mustered in response to an alarm that the French were attacking England which proved to be false; they complain of soiled, torn, or lost clothing, ...
EditorialTowel cover from Switzerland. Such a decorative towel was used to cover soiled hand towels. The uppermost embroidery is a crown with flowers encircling the name of the family of Jacob Pessil. Linen with wool embroidery, 150 x 35 cm.
EditorialLinen bag of salt for mummification, Egyptian, New Kingdom, c1550-c1070 BC. In its most developed form, the mummification process took seventy-two days. To prevent the body from decaying, the internal organs were removed. The brain was not regarded as ...