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![[picture: Front Cover, Portfolio]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/tn/000-front-cover-q75-500x418.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Portfolio]")
Pictures and extracts from Portfolio of Photograph of Famous Scenes, Cities and Paintings Prepared under the supervision of the distinguished lecturer and traveler John L. Soddard; Published weekly by Educational Publishing Company, Chicago [USA].
This copy is undated but is bound with views of the World’s Fair from Chicago in 1893.
The Portfolio accompanied Stoddard’s series of lectures, whih i also have here, published in ten numbered volumes and several supplements.
The book contains over two hundred photographs, each some 12x10 inches in size.
Title: Famous Scenes and Cities
Published by: Educational Publishing COmpany
City: Chicago
Date: 1894
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Front Cover, Portfolio]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/wm/big/000-front-cover-q75-239x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Portfolio]")
The front cover of the book is brown with “Famous Scenes and Cities” in gold embossed capital letters onthe front. [$]
![[picture: Old Curiosity Shop, London]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/wm/big/131-old-curiosity-shop-q85-248x200.jpg "[picture: Old Curiosity Shop, London]")
![[picture: Nazareth, Palestine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/wm/big/107-nazareth-palestine-q75-250x200.jpg "[picture: Nazareth, Palestine]")
![[picture: Damascus, Syria]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/wm/big/115-damascus-syria-q75-159x200.jpg "[picture: Damascus, Syria]")
In this vintage photograph from 1893 or so, we see the rooftops of a city: domes, mosques with their minaret towers (one in the left foreground), and, at front, a building with cloistered walks on two levels. The description in the book seems sexist and racist to the modern reader; the last sentence is from a later edition and not present in the one [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis, England]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/wm/big/120-stoke-pogis-churchyard-q75-249x200.jpg "[picture: Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis, England]")
Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis, England
An English country churchyard, with uneven monuments, and a medieval church with ivy-covered walls and a spire. [more...] [$]
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