Description: 'Grand Teton National park is located in Northwestern Wyoming and is home to an abundant variety of flora and fauna, lakes, rivers, and the striking Teton range. The Tetons are the youngest of all the mountain ranges in the Rocky Mountain chain yet are made up of the continent's oldest rocks that date back 3 billion years.'
Description: Chromolithograph - Plate XI - Artist - Ernst Heign. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution, by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Half Volume III, 1895. Printed in Leipzig by the Bibliographisches Institute . Image courtesy of ancestryimages.com - copyright free for non-commercial use. "Those running personal websites dealing with family history, genealogy, or other historical research etc. are most welcome to copy any of the map or print images for their own use, as are charity and non-profit organizations. 1898: "E.S. Rand, commemorated in Victoria Randi, died recently in Para, Brazil. He was an expert plantsman, a private gentleman, and wrote interestingly on various horticultural subjects." - American Gardening, Volume 19, 1898, p. 458. Victoria Regia, as shown in this illustration, does not purport to be variety Randi, but similar to that named for Edward S. Rand. "Victoria Randi, the new Crimson Victoria, is a variety of recent introduction ; very similar to the Victoria Regia, except the vertical edges of the leaves are broader, forming a deeper 'tray' and the flowers, opening white, soon change to a deep crimson." - "Botanical guide through the Phipps conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny" by Gustave Guttenbert, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1894. [show more]
Description: The statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400–1475), an Italian condottiero, who became captain-general of the Republic of Venice was modeled by Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488) and cast in bronze after Colleoni’s death by Alessandro Leopardi (working by 1842 – died 1522/3). Bartolomeo Colleoni had left money for the statue and asked that it be placed in the Piazza San Marco. Monuments were not permitted there so it was erected nearby next to the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo (seen in the background of Henry Rand’s photograph.) [show more]