Images Dated 29th September 2016

Bust of Cicero

Bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-46 BC) - a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. Bust in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Parthenon frieze, effects of a century of decay

The Parthenon frieze: effects of a century of decay. Plaster casts of parts of the frieze left in place on the temple made for Lord Elgin in 1801 compared with how it was in 1929 after a century of exposure to the weather and other damaging forces. Date: 1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Fulani village, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa

Fulani village, part of Cape Coast, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. The Fulani, described here as desert tribes from the Sahara, imported their own style of building. Date: circa 1924

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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