1857 Wood Engraving Chief Temple Shimoda Japan Commodore M. C. Perry XGA5 LF2 Ayres and Wygant

Ayres and Wygant

"Nature Has Played Strange Pranks in the Bai D'Along" This is an original 1931 black and white halftone print of the Baie D'Along

Max Weber (1881-1961) was a modernist pioneer known for his fauvist

Crenshaw of Pelham Road

This is an original 1925 black and white print ad for the Medusa White Cement from Sandusky Cement Company located in Cleveland

1857 Wood Engraving Chief Temple Shimoda Japan Commodore M. C. Perry XGA5 LF2 Ayres and WygantThis is an original 1857 black and white wood engraving of the street and entrance to the Chief Temple in Simoda (Shimoda), Japan, from United States Naval Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to the Orient. Between the years of 1852 and 1854, President Millard Filmore ordered United States Navy Commodore Matthew Clabraith Perry to lead a squadron to Japan in order to establish diplomatic relations, open economic trade ports and protect American