"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870. From the series Great Ideas of W

Nodding Campion (Lychnis apetala) Mary Vaux Walcott

Whaler off the Vineyard - Outward Bound William Bradford

Comanche Feats of Horsemanship George Catlin

Lawrence Barrett As Cassius Jonathan Scott Hartley

Paper Bag Making Machine Edgar Stocking

Delphinium (Delphinium scopulorum) Mary Vaux Walcott