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Betula

Genus of plants

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Images featuring Betula

8 images from works
  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • A tree, possibly siver birch (Betula pendula). Pencil drawing.
  • A German soldier washing his hair with Dr. Dralle's birch-sap shampoo. Process print after Leonhard Fries with letterpress.
  • A German soldier smoking a pipe washes a comrade's hair with Dr. Dralle's birch-sap shampoo. Process print after Leonhard Fries with letterpress.
  • Leaves of birch (Betula species). Pen drawing with pencil.
  • Three trees, possibly pines (Pinus species), with surrounding vegetation. Lithograph, c. 1822.
  • A tree, possibly a silver birch (Betula pendula), with surrounding vegetation. Lithograph, c. 1822.
  • Birch (Betula species): twigs and catkins. Pen and pencil drawings.

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3 works

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    Gurney's easy and compendious system of shorthand adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. Improved by Thomas Sergeant [i.e., Sarjeant].

    Thomas Gurney | Date: June 17, 1799
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    The vaccine scourge, in answer to the calumnies and falsehoods, lately circulated with great industry by that extraordinary surgeon, Mr. Birch, and other anti-vaccinists.

    | Date: 1808
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    An easy and compendious system of shorthand adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. For the use of schools. Abstracted from the larger edition. By Thomas Sarjeant. [Four lines of verse] Illustrated with ten copperplates.

    Thomas Gurney | Date: 1792

Related topics

Botany
Plants
Betulaceae
Trees
European white birch

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