From prim parlor maids to fashionably dressed ladies, Charles Dana Gibson captured the spirit of the American woman in his charming, turn-of-the-century illustr

197 charming, royalty-free illustrations of bathing beauties, golfers, parlor maids, romantic ingenues, more-in a variety of poses. By great turn-of-the-century

Based on J.G. Heck's 'Bilder Atlas zum Conversations Lexicon, ' published in Germany in the nineteenth century, the original 'Iconographic Encyclopædia of Scie

Over 1,000 motifs reprinted from a rare book of design first published in France in 1870. Ornate Cyrillic and Greek letters, corners, borders, page heads, and m

Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women from the turn of the century through the end of World War I and how they changed women's role in society.