Many societies have required travel papers or identification papers. Find out more about identification papers in Nazi Germany, travel documents in revolutionary France, safe conduct papers in medieval China, or banishment papers to Siberia in Stalinist Russia. The Book Preserves the Past 1. Caxton, the Ellsmere Manuscript, and the William Morris edition. Discuss aspects which change and aspects which remain constant.
Art preserves the past.
Examine the illustrations in Description de l'Egypte, or Piranesi, or Catherwood's Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, or Owen Jones and Jules Ghoury's Plans , Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra , or David Roberts' The Holy Land and discuss what these works reveal not only about the art but about the attitudes and values of the time in which they were published. 4.Using your memory, draw a map or a picture of a site which you can no longer visit. Take a walk on the Arts Quadrangle of the Cornell campus and list examples of buildings which illustrate the nineteenth century obsession with the classical and medieval periods. 6.Take a piece of newspaper and cut it into five pieces. Leave one piece unprotected, place one piece in an envelope, place one piece under glass, place one piece in a book, and place one piece under wax paper.