



Produced by Robert J. Hall




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--
Canyons--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.

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CAREFULLY ARRANGED AND APPROPRIATELY EXPLAINED BY

JAMES W. SHEPP AND DANIEL B. SHEPP.

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SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.

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GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO.,

NO. 705 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA.




PREFACE

[Illustration: I]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 <DW18>s 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
    Green Drawing Room

  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
  Gaming Hall, 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,
    Schoenbrunn

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.
    Citadel
    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 Canyon of the Yellowstone

  COLORADO.
    Animas Canyon
    Grand Canyon 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

[Illustration: BLARNEY CASTLE, IRELAND.--Here are observed the
ruins of a famous old fortress, visited by thousands of tourists
every year, on account of a tradition which has been attached for
centuries to one of the stones used in building the castle. Its
walls are 120 feet high and 18 feet thick; but it is principally
noted for the "Blarney Stone," which is said to be endowed with the
property of communicating to those who kiss its polished surface,
the gift of gentle, insinuating speech. The triangular stone is 20
feet from the top, and contains this inscription: Cormack MacCarthy,
"Fortis me fieri fecit A. D. 1446."]

[Illustration: LAKES OF KILLARNEY, IRELAND.--These are three connected
lakes, near the centre of County Kerry. The largest contains thirty
islands, and covers an area of fifteen square miles. The beautiful
scenery along the lakes consists in the gracefulness of the mountain
outlines and the rich and varied colorings of the wooded shores.
Here the beholder falters, and his spirit is overawed as in a dream,
while he contemplates the power and grandeur of the Creator. The
lakes are visited by thousands of tourists annually. The above
photograph gives a general view of them.]

[Illustration: DUBLIN, IRELAND.--Dublin, the capital and chief
city of Ireland, is the centre of the political, ecclesiastical,
educational, commercial, military and railroad enterprises of the
kingdom. It is the residence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
and it claims a high antiquity, having been in existence since the
time of Ptolemy. In the ninth century it was taken by the Danes,
who held sway for over two hundred years. In 1169 it was taken back
by the English, and seven years later, its history began to be
identified with that of Ireland. The city is divided into two parts
by the Liffey, which is spanned by nine bridges. This photograph
represents Sackville street, one of its principal thoroughfares.]

[Illustration: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, IRELAND.--The Giant's Causeway
derives its name from a mythical legend, representing it to be
the commencement of a road to be constructed by giants across the
channel from Ireland to Scotland. It is a sort of pier or promontory
of columnar basalt, projecting from the north coast of Antrim,
Ireland, into the North Sea. It is divided by whin-<DW18>s into the
Little Causeway, the Middle or "Honeycomb Causeway" here represented,
and the Grand Causeway. The pillars vary in diameter from 15 to 20
inches, and in height, from 10 to 20 feet. It is a most curious
formation.]

[Illustration: MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.--Glasgow
is one of the best governed cities in Great Britain, and has a
broad, bold and enlightened policy that conduces to the health,
comfort and advancement of its citizens. This photograph represents
its municipal buildings and a statue of Sir Walter Scott. The building
is large and imposing, and of a mixed style of architecture. It
was erected in 1860, at a cost of nearly half a million dollars,
and has a tower 210 feet high. The Post Office, Bank of Scotland,
Town Hall, Exchange and Revenue Buildings are close by.]

[Illustration: LOCH LOMOND, SCOTLAND.--Here is presented the largest
and, in many respects, the most beautiful of the Scottish Lakes; it
is nearly twenty-five miles long, and from one to five miles wide.
Its beauty is enhanced by the numerous wooded islands, among which
the steamer threads its way. Some of the islands are of considerable
size, and, by their craggy and wooded features, add greatly to the
scenic beauty of the lake. Loch Lomond is unquestionably the pride
of Scottish Lakes. It exceeds all others in extent and variety of
scenery.]

[Illustration: FORTH BRIDGE, SCOTLAND.--This bridge, crossing the
Firth of Forth, is pronounced the largest structure in the world,
and is the most striking feat yet achieved in bridge-building. It
is 8296 feet long, 354 feet high, and cost $12,500,000. It was
begun in 1883, and completed in 1890. It is built on the cantilever
and central girder system, the principle of which is that of "stable
equilibrium," its own weight helping to balance it more firmly
in position. Each of the main spans is 1700 feet long, and the
deepest foundations are 88 feet. The weight of the metal in the
bridge is 50,000 tons.]

[Illustration: BALMORAL CASTLE, SCOTLAND.--The above-named castle,
the summer residence of Queen Victoria, is most beautifully and
romantically situated in the Highlands of Scotland. The Queen has
two other residences, one on the Isle of Wight, and the other at
Windsor; but the Highland home is the most pleasant and attractive.
The surrounding country is rich in deer, grouse and every other kind
of game. The place is always guarded by soldiers, and no one is
allowed to come near the castle, unless by special permission. The
