Shepp's Photographs of the World.
CONSISTING OF
Panoramic Views of Cities—Street Scenes—Public Buildings—Cathedrals—Mosques—Churches— Temples—Observatories—Castles—Palaces—Homes of Noted People—Private Apartments of Presidents, Queens, Kings, Emperors, Monarchs and Rulers—Harems—Universities— Colleges—Active Volcanoes—Mountain Scenery—Lake Scenery—Lochs—Fjords—Falls—River Scenery— Cañons—Geysers—Bridges—Parks— Fountains—Theatres—Obelisks—Towers— Memorials—Tombs—Caves—Cemeteries—Pyramids— Ruins of Castles—Ruins of Temples—Ruins of Ancient Cities—Tropical Scenery—Towns— Villages—Huts,
Together with a large array of instantaneous photographs, showing the every-day life of the people in the various countries of the world.
COLLECTED FROM
Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America and the Pacific Islands,
REPRESENTING
The World as it Exists To-Day.
Also, direct copies of all the original famous paintings and statuary, by the world's old masters and modern artists, taken from the leading galleries, including the
FRENCH SALON, LOUVRE AND LUXEMBOURG GALLERIES, PARIS; AND VERSAILLES GALLERY, VERSAILLES, FRANCE; THE DRESDEN GALLERY, DRESDEN, GERMANY; THE UFFIZI AND PITTI GALLERIES, FLORENCE, ITALY; AND THE VATICAN GALLERY, ROME.
Forming the largest and most valuable collection of works of art in the world.
Carefully Arranged and Appropriately Explained by
JAMES W. SHEPP AND DANIEL B. SHEPP.
SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.
GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO.,
No. 705 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penna.
PREFACE
n all ages, men have been eager to tell and to hear new things; and before books were printed, travellers wandered abroad, bringing home wonderful stories of unknown lands.
In the construction of this publication, the object is not to tell stories or relate experiences, but to exhibit, by carefully taken photographs, the great sights of the world as they exist to-day.
The art of teaching with pictures is very old. The ancient Egyptians used emblems and designs to record the various incidents of their history, traces of which are still found on obelisks and ruined temples.
Wood illustrations were also introduced many years ago; and as time rolled on, marked improvements were made in the art of wood-engraving. Notwithstanding the fact that they have not the power of truly representing the original objects they intend to portray, they are still largely used for illustrating printed books and papers.
Over a century ago, the art of photography was made known to the world by Scheele, a Swedish chemist; since then, many improvements have been made in this art, until now, by the photo-electro process, an exact photograph can be transferred on a copper plate, without losing a single line or shade, and from this plate, photographs can be printed, such as appear in this book.
Owing to the increasing popularity of the graphic and pictorial methods of imparting information, the photographic camera was employed to secure photographs of the greatest things of the world as seen to-day, both for instruction and entertainment.
We forget knowledge acquired by common conversation, and descriptions of places and things; but when we observe them, and their forms are conveyed to our minds through the medium of our eyes, they are indelibly impressed upon the memory.
The object, then, of this Publication is to present photographs of all the great sights of the world, from every corner of the globe, carefully reproducing them by the photo-electro process, and adding a few lines of explanation to every picture, so that any one can comprehend each subject.
To make this collection, every country was carefully ransacked, starting in Ireland, with the famous Blarney Castle and Lakes of Killarney in the south, and extending to the Giant's Causeway in the north, said by an old legend to have been built by giants to form a road across the channel to Scotland.
Passing through Scotland, we photographed its hills, castles, lochs, bridges and cities. Throughout Wales and England, we represent their busy seaport and manufacturing towns; the home of Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon; Windsor Castle, far-famed for its beauty and battlements; Greenwich Observatory, from which the longitude of the world is computed; Hampton Court, a relic of royalty; and London, the metropolis of the world, with over six million people, its crowded streets, imperial buildings, historic abbeys, famous towers and monuments.
The Netherlands and Denmark are represented by the dykes and windmills, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, the battlefield of Waterloo; Russia, the land of the Czar, by Moscow, The Kremlin; St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace. Thence our photographers travelled across the steppes to Lapland, Finland, Poland, and over the tundras to sterile Siberia, inflicting its cruel tortures on unhappy exiled prisoners.
Germany, that romantic country of northern Europe, affords Berlin; Potsdam, its Royal Palaces; Dresden and its Picture Galleries; Frankfort-on-the-Main, the former home of Luther, the reformer, and Rothschild, the financial king of the world; the picturesque Rhine, lined with its historic castles.
France furnishes for our collection Paris, the proudest city of the whole world, ever gay, its pretty boulevards, monuments, towers, bridges, historic buildings, the Louvre and Luxembourg Galleries, and their treasures of painting and sculptures; Versailles, its royal palaces, the largest in the world; the palace at Fontainbleau, buried in the midst of that imperial forest, the home where Napoleon ruled and abdicated; the cities of the interior and those of the ever-delightful Riveria, from Marseilles to Monte Carlo, the latter both lovely, hideous, serene, sensational, beautiful and damnable.
Through Spain and Portugal, every object of interest was photographed, from the wild and thrilling scenery of the Pyrenees in the north to that bold headland rock of Gibraltar in the south, and from the calm Mediterranean in the east to the turbulent waters of the Atlantic on the west.
Of Switzerland, we exhibit its snow-capped peaks of perpetual ice and snow; Mont Blanc, Matterhorn and Jungfrau; its placid lakes; mountain passes, like shelves cut in rock; its bridges of ice and variety of wild scenery that is seen nowhere but in Switzerland.
Through sunny Italy we gathered photographs from lakes Lugano, Maggiore and Como with perpetual spring, in the north, to the fiery crater of Mount Vesuvius in the south; Venice, the "Queen of the Adriatic;" Genoa, the home of Columbus; Pisa, its leaning tower; Florence, the "flower of cities," with its galleries of statues and paintings that the wealth of nations could not purchase; and Rome, that mighty city by the Tiber, that once ruled the world, and is still the abode of the Pope; St. Peters and its ruins; yet now calm, peaceful and powerless.
Austria, where the Catholic bows his head to every shrine, favored us with its sublime mountain scenery; the picturesque Tyrol; the blue Danube, famous in history and song; and Vienna, the home of the Emperor and the former abode of Maria Theresa, strangely fascinating and unlike any other city in the whole world. Turkey, the land of the Sultan and the followers of Mahomet, with its strange people and curious habits, is represented by Constantinople, with its mosques and minarets, from the top of which the Mussulman sings out his daily calls for prayer, Ali! Ali!—there is but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet; its streets, gates and squares; the Bosphorus and Golden Horn.
Classic Greece, once the centre of art and learning, adorns our collection with Athens, the Acropolis and Parthenon, the latter almost completely and shamefully bereft of those famous marbles, chiseled by Phidias nearly five hundred years before Christ.
In ancient Egypt we photographed the Suez Canal; Alexandria, the former city of Cleopatra; Cairo, the home of the Khedive and his harems; the Sphynx and Pyramids, the latter the tombs of the selected Ptolemies; the river Nile, fed by the melting snows from the mountains of the Moon, and pouring its waters over this ancient valley with a regularity as though the ruined temples on its banks give it command.
Palestine, the Holy Land, made famous in the history of the Christian Church, added Jeruselem, the City of David; Bethlehem, the cradle of Christ; Jordan, where He was baptized; the Sea of Galilee, on whose shores He preached to the multitude; Nazareth, from which He was called a Nazarene; Gethsemane, where He suffered; Calvary, where He was crucified.
Asia furnished Mecca, that eternal city to which Mahomet's disciples make their weary pilgrimages; Hindoostan, from Bombay to Calcutta; the grottos of Illora; the caverns of Salcette; the Hindoo priests, chanting the verses of the Vedas; the ruins of the city of the great Bali, the domes of the pagodas; glacier views, snow bridges, rattan bridges in the Himalayas; the sacred caves of Amurnath, to which pilgrimages are made by the Hindoos; Srinugurr and its floating gardens; curious bridges; bazaars for the sale of the world-renowned Cashmere shawls, the winding river Jheulm, with its many curves, suggesting the pattern or design for these famous wraps; Darjeeling and Mussorie, celebrated hill sanitariums, in the heart of the Himalayas, much frequented by tourists during summer; Melapore, where St. Thomas was martyred and where Christ, perhaps, lived during His absence from Judea, drawing from the books of the Brahmins, the most perfect precepts of His divine teachings; the subterranean caverns of Candy; the splendor of the Valley of Rubies; Adam's Peak; the footmark of Buddha; the fairy-like view of the Straits of Sunda.
Our photographers also traversed the Celestial Empire, South America, Central America, Mexico, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Canada and the United States, from the Golden Gate in the west to the Rocky Coast of New England in the east, and from the Lake Cities in the north to the Cotton States in the south. Through every country and every clime, north, south, east and west, wherever was located a point of interest, an historic castle, a famous monument, a grand cathedral, a world's wonder, a great city, a crowded avenue, an imperial building, a pretty picture, an exquisite statue, a picturesque river, an inspiring grandeur of nature, a curious cavern, a lofty peak, a deep valley, a strange people, the same was reflected through the camera and added to this book.
The result of this collection entailed therefore the expenditure of a vast amount of money and labor, as may be supposed; and the only wish of the publishers is, that it may afford pleasure and instruction to those that view the result of their labors.
CONTENTS.
IRELAND.
Blarney Castle
Lakes of Killarney
Dublin (Instantaneous)
Giant's Causeway
SCOTLAND.
Municipal Buildings, Glasgow
Loch Lomond
Forth Bridge
Balmoral Castle
Clamshell Cave, Island of Staffa
Edinburgh (Instantaneous)
ENGLAND.
Liverpool (Instantaneous)
Lime Street, Liverpool (Instantaneous)
Manchester (Instantaneous)
Warwick Castle, Warwick
Shakespeare's House, Stratford-on-Avon
Brighton
Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court
Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich
Windsor Castle.
Windsor Castle
London.
Midland Grand Hotel and St. Pancras Station
The Strand (Instantaneous)
Cheapside (Instantaneous)
St. Paul's Cathedral
The Bank of England (Instantaneous)
Tower of London
London Bridge (Instantaneous)
Westminster Abbey
Houses of Parliament
Trafalgar Square
Buckingham Palace
Rotten Row (Instantaneous)
Albert Memorial
BELGIUM.
Antwerp
Brussels.
Panoramic View of Brussels
Palace of the King
Bourse (Instantaneous)
City Hall
Cathedral of Ste. Gudule
The Forbidden Book. Painting, Ooms
HOLLAND.
Scheveningen
Amsterdam (Instantaneous)
Windmill
NORWAY.
Christiansand
Bergen
Naerdfjord, Gudvnagen
North Cape
RUSSIA.
Moscow
Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
GERMANY.
The Cathedral, Cologne
Bingen
Ehrenbreitstein
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Martin Luther's House, Frankfort-on-the-Main
Ariadne on the Panther, Statuary, Dannecker
University Building, Leipsic
Berlin.
Royal Palace
Berlin, Unter den Linden
Statue of Frederick the Great
The Brandenburg Gate
Monument of Victory
Potsdam.
The Historic Windmill
Dresden Gallery.
Madonna di San Sisto, Painting, Raphael
Magdalene, Painting, Battoni
FRANCE.
Paris.
Bird's-eye View of Paris
Place de la Concorde (Instantaneous)
Madeleine (Instantaneous)
Opera House (Instantaneous)
Great Boulevards
July Column
Statue of the Republic
Vendome Column
Royal Palace
Hotel de Ville
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Palace of Justice
Arc of Triumph
Dome des Invalides
Tomb of Napoleon
Eiffel Tower
Pantheon
Louvre Buildings
Louvre Gallery.
Venus de Milo, Statuary, Unknown
Tomb of Phillippe Pot, Statuary, Renaissance
Peacemaker of the Village, Painting, Greuze
Luxembourg Gallery.
The Last Veil, Statuary, Bouret
Arrest in the Village, Painting, Salmson
A Mother, Statuary, Lenoir
Joan of Arc, Statuary, Chapu
Paying the Reapers, Painting, Lhermitte
Ignorance, Painting, Paton
Versailles.
Royal Palace
Royal Carriage
Versailles Gallery.
Last Victims of the Reign of Terror, Painting, Muller
Napoleon at Austerlitz, Painting, Vernet
Napoleon, Painting, Gosse
Fontainebleau.
Royal Palace
Throne Room
Apartment of Tapestries
Apartment of Mme. de Maintenon
SOUTHERN FRANCE.
Nice
Monaco
Monte Carlo
SPAIN.
Madrid
Seville
Bull Fight, Seville (Instantaneous)
Toledo
Gibraltar
PORTUGAL.
Lisbon
SWITZERLAND.
Kirchenfeld Bridge, Berne
Clock Tower, Berne
Peasant Woman
Interlaken and the Jungfrau
Grindelwald
A Thousand Foot Chasm
Brunig Pass
Lucerne
Rigi
Rigi-Kulm
Pilatus
Simplon's Pass
Zermatt and the Matterhorn
Chamounix and Mont Blanc
Engleberg
St. Gotthard Railway
Axenstrasse
AUSTRIA.
Vienna.
Panorama of Vienna
Hotel Metropole
Church of St. Stephen
Theseus, Statuary, Canova
Schönbrunn
TURKEY.
Constantinople.
Galata Bridge (Instantaneous)
Mosque of St. Sophia
Interior of the Mosque of St. Sophia
Street Scene (Instantaneous)
Mosque of Ahmed
Turkish Lady
Street Merchants
Sultan's Harem
GREECE.
Acropolis, Athens
Parthenon, Athens
ITALY.
Milan.
Grand Cathedral and Square
Corso Venezia
Turin.
Exposition Buildings
Duke Ferdinand of Genoa
Genoa.
General View of Genoa
Statue of Columbus
Pisa.
Leaning Tower
Venice.
Palace of the Doges
Grand Canal
Cathedral of St. Mark
Street Scene in Venice
The Rialto (Instantaneous)
Florence.
The Cathedral
Vecchio Bridge
Monk
Loggia dei Lanzi
Uffizi Buildings
Loggia Dei Lanzi.
Rape of Polyxena, Statuary, Fedi
Uffizi Gallery.
Wild Boar, Bronze
The Grinder, Statuary, 16th Century
Rome.
Appian Way and Tomb of Cecilia Metella
Pyramid of Cestius and St. Paul Gate
Roman Forum
Forum of Trajan
Baths of Caracalla
Colosseum
Interior of Colosseum
Pantheon
Bridge of St. Angelo and Tomb of Hadrian
St. Peter's and Vatican
Interior of St. Peter's
Romulus and Remus
Vatican Gallery.
Transfiguration, Painting, Raphael
La Ballerina, Statuary, Canova
Laocoonte, Statuary
Naples.
Toledo Street (Instantaneous)
Mount Vesuvius.
Crater
Pompeii.
Street of Tombs
Civil Forum
Island of Capri.
General View and Landing
Island of Ischia.
Castello
EGYPT.
Alexandria.
Harbor
Place of Mehemet Ali
Cairo.
Mosque of Mohammed 'Ali
Street Scene
Palace of Gezireh
On Camel-Back
Pyramids of Gizeh
Corner View of the Great Pyramid
The Sphynx
In Central Africa
Suez Canal.
Landing on Suez Canal (Instantaneous)
Post Office, Suez
PALESTINE.
Yaffa or Jaffa
Jerusalem.
General View of Jerusalem
Wailing Place of the Jews
Street Scene
Garden of Gethsemane
Bethlehem
Dead Sea
Nazareth
Jacob's Well
SYRIA.
Beyrouth
Great Mosque, Damascus
Ba'albek
Mecca
INDIA.
Kalbadevie Road, Bombay
Benares
Tropical Scenery
Heathen Temple
Royal Observatory
CHINA.
Wong Tai Ken
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Typical Scene
ALASKA.
Sitka
Totem Poles
CANADA.
Parliament Buildings
UNITED STATES.
San Francisco.
Golden Gate
Market Street, San Francisco
Yosemite Valley.
General View
Glacier Point
Mirror Lake
Big Tree
Salt Lake City.
Great Mormon Temple
Yellowstone National Park.
Pulpit Terrace
Obsidian Cliff
Mammoth Paint Pots
Old Faithful Geyser
Yellowstone Lake and Hot Springs
Yellowstone Falls
Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone
Colorado.
Animas Cañon
Grand Cañon of the Arkansas River
Mountain of the Holy Cross
Manitou and Pike's Peak
Summit of Pike's Peak
Gateway to the Garden of the Gods
Cathedral Spires
Life in Oklahoma
Indian Wigwam, Indian Territory
State Street, Chicago, Ill.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Mass.
New York.
Park Row
Brooklyn Bridge
Elevated Railroad
Statue of Liberty
Philadelphia.
Chestnut Street
Market Street
St. Augustine, Fla.
Fort San Marco
Ponce de Leon
Washington, D. C.
The Capitol
White House
Where royal heads receive the sacred gold;
It give them crowns, and does their ashes keep;
There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep,
Making the circle of their reign complete.
These sons of Empire, where they rise, they set." HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, London, England.—These edifices form a single pile of buildings of the richest Gothic style. They cover over eight acres, contain one hundred stair-cases, eleven hundred apartments, and cost $15,000,000. They are perhaps the most costly national structure in the world. The Queen enters on the opening and prorogation of Parliament through the Victoria Tower, which is three hundred and forty feet high. The imposing river-front of the edifice is nine hundred and forty feet long, and adorned with statues of English monarchs, from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. TRAFALGAR SQUARE, London, England.—Here is one of the finest open places in London. This great square, which is a centre of attraction, was dedicated to Lord Nelson, and commemorates his glorious death in the battle of Trafalgar, October 22, 1805, gained by the English fleet over the combined armaments of France and Spain. In the centre of the Square, rises to the memory of the great hero, a massive granite column, one hundred and fifty-four feet high, and crowned with a statue of Nelson. At the foot of the pedestal is inscribed his last command, "England expects every man will do his duty." BUCKINGHAM PALACE, London, England.—The above palace, being now the Queen's residence and occupying the site of Buckingham House, was erected in 1703 by the Duke of Buckingham, and purchased by George III. His successor remodeled it in 1825, but it remained vacant until 1837, when it was occupied by Queen Victoria, whose residence it has since continued to be. The palace now forms a quadrangle, and is three hundred and sixty feet long. It contains a sculpture-gallery, a library, green drawing-room, throne-room, grand saloon, state ball-room, picture-gallery and private apartments. ROTTEN ROW, London, England.—Rotten Row is the finest portion of Hyde Park, irrespectively of the magnificent groups of trees and expanses of grass for which English parks stand pre-eminent. The Park is surrounded by a handsome and lofty iron railing, and provided with nine carriage entrances. In the spring and summer the fashionable world rides, drives or walks through the Row; and in the drives are seen unbroken files of elegant equipages and high-bred horses in handsome trappings moving continually, presided over by sleek coachmen and powdered lackeys, and occupied by some of the most beautiful and exquisitely dressed women in the world. ALBERT MEMORIAL, London, England.—This magnificent monument to Albert, the late Prince Consort, was erected by the English nation at a cost of $600,000. On a spacious platform, to which granite steps ascend on each side, rises a basement adorned with reliefs in marble, representing artists of every period, poets. musicians, painters and sculptors. In the centre of the basement sits the colossal bronze-gilt figure of Prince Albert. The canopy terminates at the top in a Gothic spire, rising in three stages and surmounted by a cross. The monument is one hundred and seventy-five feet high, and gorgeously embellished with bronze and marble statues, gildings, colored stones and mosaic.