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[picture: Front Cover]

Images from Bible Symbols: The Choicest Passages of God’s Word put in the Fascinating Garb of Pictures by Frank Beard [1842 – 1905] and others; text prepared by Martha Van Marter [born 1839]; Chicago, 1908.

The book is a sort of rebus, in which pictures stand for words, and perhaps help people to remember phrases from the Bible, although not necessarily to understand them or to learn love and tolerance.

Title: Bible Symbols

Author: Beard, Frank

Published by: The John A. Hertel Co.

City: Chicago, Toronto, Boston

Date: 1908

Total items: 37

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: The Gier Eagle and the Cormorant]

The Gier Eagle and the Cormorant

The Gier Eagle and the Cormorant taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]

[picture: The sea, from p. 69]

The sea, from p. 69

The sea, from the clip-art Bible. See page 69 for the context. [$]

[picture: Oxen, from p. 69]

Oxen, from p. 69

Oxen, with one ox standing and one laying down, others in the background. Taken from the clip-art Bible. See page 69 for the context. [more...] [$]

[picture: The Stork and the Heron]

The Stork and the Heron

The Stork and the Heron taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]


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