1925 Ad F C Davidge Okame Wallpaper Japan Home Decor Samurai Weaver Toronto HB3 XGTB3 This is an original 1927

This is an original 1927 photogravure of cranes loading sulfur at Galveston

He was 65 years old when he came to the throne

This is an original 1945 halftone print of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in Washington

This is an original 1857 black and white wood engraving of an ancient Japanese clock

an official parachute tester

1925 Ad F C Davidge Okame Wallpaper Japan Home Decor Samurai Weaver Toronto HB3 XGTB3 This is an original 1927This is an original 1925 black and white print ad for grasscloth wallpaper from F. C. Davidge & Company of 28 Wellington Street West of Toronto, Canada. The caption writes, "Some eight hundred years ago when the Daimyo returned from his yearly visit to the Tokogawa Shogunate, he would bring with him, as his most valued gift, lengths of cloth woven from the Honeysuckle vine, which grows wild on the hillsides of Japan. This cloth was used by the Samurai