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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

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Egrets in a Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11

A bird’s nest, with egrets (baby eagles) in it. [$]

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...] [$]

The Cuckow and the Hawk

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

Sheep, from p. 69

Sheep grazing in a field by the side of a hill, from the clip-art Bible. See page 69 for the context. [more...] [$]

Bible Symbols Title Page

Some people say that a good title page should contain an odd number of clumps of text; here there are five, so this must be good, right? I have also made a separate image out of the purple border around the page. [more...] [$]

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