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A stylized shot glass personalized for a "Joe", from a turn-of-the-century store in Atlantic City. - Bradford Gladstone

A glass negative of Louisa Lee Schuyler, a philanthropist who began her career as the office organizer for the Woman's Central Association of Relief, alongside Barnard College Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. This photo was most likely taken at Columbia…

Two images of the Mitchell Corn Palace in South Dakota from 1885 and 2013. This is the only Corn Palace left in the US. Another image shows how the mosaics were constructed.
-Madeleine Hodges

"A 24 page soft-cover program of the Nineteenth Annual Fair of the Bedford County Agriculture Society held in Shelbyville, Tennessee beginning on September 5, 1889. The booklet includes lists of stockholders, advertisements, and the agricultural…

The caption to this comic should read in the first frame "Go, my son, go and study the civilization of the Occident" and "I am industriously studying the civilization of these Americans but it is very expensive. Please send me a bag of dollars" in…

Despite China's late arrival to the Centennial and limited space for their exhibit, China's exhibit was made extremely unique by their use of partitions along the perimeter and the addition of a roof to the exhibit. This enclosure blocked…

This is the outside of Dahomey Village, a recreation of a West African village. The visitors, all white and dressed in modern Western clothes make a sharp contrast with the posters outside the village of half naked men with weapons. Also, the…

The seaside was a place that all people could swim. Since Coney Island bent the social rules of etiquette, men and women were allowed to frolic together and “let their hair done”. The fact that the women are being held up by two men shows how the…

postcard 1909...more to be added...-Madeleiene Hodges

..to be edited further..The Elephant Hotel in Coney Island was one of three elephants designed and built by James Lafferty. It opened in 1885 and was located st Surf Avenue and West 12th street. The seven story tall structure included 34 guest rooms…