Enforcing prohibition post mortem Inscribed below in pencil: 'Iris

Inscribed below in pencil: 'Iris xiphioides (x1 1/2) Large Garden Form

This relates to an ongoing discussion concerning the Suez Canal

' In pencil lower left 'Elected [1789 struck through] 1791'

View of figures and shops on Bermondsey Street

Zoological studies of mollusc shells

Enforcing prohibition post mortem Inscribed below in pencil: 'IrisEnforcing prohibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 1920s. Law enforcement agents examining at a cache of 191 pint bottles found underneath a sailor's mattress on a steamer putting in at Norfolk, Virginia. The sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned in the United States under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress in 1919. The ban remained in force until the amendment was repealed