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Joseph Masson (1791-1847)

April 24, 2024

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Joseph Masson (January 5, 1791 – May 15, 1847) was Canadian businessman, who is considered the first French Canadian millionaire. Masson was Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1834 to 1838. ...

Veduta dell’Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo, from: ‘Vedute di Roma’ (Views of Rome)

April 19, 2024

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's rendering of the Colosseum "revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi's labels ... inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the...

Roman Calendar

April 19, 2024

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Rendering and an actual image of the Fasti Antiates, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic, the oldest archaeologically attested local Roman calendar and the only such calendar known from before the Julian calendar reforms. (Drawing ...

Pantheon in Rome

April 19, 2024

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Reconstruction of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from the side, cut away to reveal the interior. ...

Mausoleum of Augustus

April 19, 2024

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Idealized painting of the heritage site of the Mausoleum of Augustus (1575) by Étienne Dúperac, with a view of the gardens of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. ...

Trajan’s Column and Roman Ruins

April 19, 2024

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Painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-Rome 1765) of this key heritage city, as it may have looked during Roman times. ...

Land deed of Henry Copping

January 12, 2024

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The 1860 Land Deed of Henry Copping, Rawdon, Quebec. ...

Map of the Country of the Five Nations

January 10, 2024

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A MAP of the Country of the Five Nations, belonging to the Province of New York; and of the Lakes near which the Nations of Far Indians live, with part of Canada. N.B. The Tuscaroras are now reckon'd a sixth Nation, & live between the Onondagues...