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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: 36

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: Fish of the sea, from p. 69]

Fish of the sea, from p. 69

A rather large fish, from the clip-art Bible. See page 69 for the context. [$]

[picture: The Eagle and the Ossifrage]

The Eagle and the Ossifrage

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

[picture: Full-page border with ivy]

Full-page border with ivy

You could think of this border as depicting a rectangle of metal rods with ivy growing along them. It’s Edwardian, just two years after the death of Queen Victoria, but it’s also timeless. [more...] [$]

[picture: The Lawing and the Bat]

The Lawing and the Bat

The Lawing and the Bat taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. Today bats are not really considered to be birds. [more...] [$]

[picture: Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)]

Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)

I coloured a copy of the Money Chest: The Treasury to make the pile of coins really gold (well, yellow) and the wood be brown. [more...] [$]


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