Illustration from "Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers" (1861) (via Internet Archive)
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Can a Town be a Museum? The Battle Over Jim Thorpe’s Bones
Jim Thorpe at a meet before the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912
Mostly stared at photographs of Jim Thorpe today while researching this dispute over his remains.
A selection of the pinniped skulls available for study at the British Museum [of Natural History]
Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum. John Edward Gray, 1866.
They look so...gleeful.