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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: Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeper]

Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeper

This border looks like it’s made of wooden rods with ivy growing around it. The illusion is made stronger by the brown and green colouring. [more...]

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[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.

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[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...]

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[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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[picture: Bible Symbols Title Page]

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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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.


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