Children on Marken Island, Netherlands Finish:Rolled Copy of plate 16 from

Copy of plate 16 from Testacea microscopica aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilu

Smeaton was engaged to convert the old corn mill at Stratford into a waterwheel-powered engine for raising water

showing crowds gathered to watch a hanging

Folkes wears a brown coat and waistcoat

Seeing's Believing

Children on Marken Island, Netherlands Finish:Rolled Copy of plate 16 fromChildren on Marken Island, Netherlands, 1898. The former island of Marken is a peninsula, now connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway. It is well known for its characteristic wooden houses. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898).