1907 Print Venice Italy Bucintoro Boat Gandola Ascension Marriage Adriatic XGTB4 XMF5 This is an original 1909

This is an original 1909 black and white print ad for Tobias System of Proportions by the Tobias Cloak and Suit Company located at 72 Fifth Avenue

The California Express leaves Chicago daily and reaches Los Angeles

and an early morning fox hunt

After its many acquisitions the company changed its name to General Foods Corporation in 1929

This is an original 1921 halftone print of a view of the principal thoroughfare

1907 Print Venice Italy Bucintoro Boat Gandola Ascension Marriage Adriatic XGTB4 XMF5 This is an original 1909This is an original 1907 black and white halftone print of the traditional ceremony that occurred annually in Venice, Italy, where the Doge (ruler) would wed Venice to the Adriatic Sea in the hope that God would calm the sea's waters and the Venetians' troubled hearts. He performed this ceremony on the Ascension Day after mass in Saint Mark's Basilica. The Doge would ride the famous and elaborately decorated Bucintoro boat (pictured in the background)