All The Great Explorers
Sancayhuasi, El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, circa 1615. An illustration of an Incan underground prison. Accused criminals would be placed in the cavern for an extended period of time. If they survived the various animals and insects that fed off human flesh in the darkness, they were deemed innocent and released.
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"When the master carpenter no longer goes out into the forests to choose his own tree, when he no longer cuts it down himself and saws his own boards then say farewell to the arts!"
— Viswakarman, The Ramayana
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York Boat on Lake Winnipeg, Walter J. Phillips, 1930.
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braindamages: April in the Cotswolds, Walter J. Phillips, 1930. 
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Mary Warner and Edeltrude on the Brow of a Hill, Heinrich Kühn, circa 1910.
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Around the Fish, Paul Klee, 1926.
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The Apotheosis of War, Vasily Vereshchagin, 1871.
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Masthead, Rockwell Kent, 1926.
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Illustration by Yuri Vasnetsov from the book The Stolen Sun.
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Back of the postcard reads: FUTURE NEW YORK will be pre-eminently the city of skyscrapers. The first steel frame structure that was regarded as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway, a ten story structure 129 feet high.There are now over a thousand buildings of that height in Manhattan. The best known skyscrapers are the Singer Building, 612 feet high, the Metropolitan Building, 700 feet high; and the Woolworth Tower which towers above them all and rises to a height of 790 feet.The proposed Pan American Building is to be 801 feet high. (Postcard Copyright Moses King, New York - circa 1915)
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