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Portrait of Confederate General John Bell Hood, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1865. Depicted here in civilian clothing is John Bell Hood (1831-1879), the Confederate general who rose to lead the Army of Tennessee in the...

Portrait of Confederate General John Bell Hood, photograph by J. A. Sheldon, c. 1861-1865. Depicted here is a uniformed John Bell Hood (1831-1879), the Confederate general who rose to lead the Army of Tennessee in the final year...

Front cover of The Authenticated History of the Bell Witch by M.V. Ingram (1832-1909), first printed 1894. Facsimile reproduction published by Rare Book Reprints, Nashville, TN, 1961.

This is one of a set of Bo, of which a number still survives, made at the Jin State foundry at Houma. The decoration on the bell was made by using pattern blocks, so that exactly the same motifs, made with the same set of...

The large cast-bronze bell known as the Emille Bell at Bongdeoksa, Unified Silla Kingdom, Korea. It was cast in 771 CE to honour King Seongdeok. 3.3 metres tall and over 2.2 metres in diameter, it is decorated with...

These clay bell beakers come from the Early Bronze Age necropolis of Ciempozuelos (Cuesta de la Reina, Madrid), Spain and they were found during excavations conducted in the late 19th century CE. (Ciempozuelos...

Bell Tower at Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, site of the Norse Temple at Uppsala, which was destroyed by King Inge of Sweden, c. 1080.

A Greek "bell cuirass" from the Archaic Period, made sometime between the 7th and 6th Century BCE. This cuirass came from the Greek mainland and was the antecedent to the later and more recognizable "muscle cuirass"...

A red-figure bell-krater from Paestum 360-340 BCE. In a scene from Greek comedy, Dionysos is depicted with a comic actor balancing a basket on his head. The actor is in typical costume - padded stomach, added phallus...

The Church of Immaculate Conception in Dusit, Bangkok, Thailand. It is the 1847 reconstruction, supervised by the influential French missionary, Monsignor Pallegoix (1805-1862). The Neo-Romanesque...