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The Improved Corliss Engine Of Modern Design:
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes:
The Corliss Engine, as exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition by President Grant, powered all the machines in machinery hall- and stood as a large testament to the American horsepower. In his classic nearly-poetic style, Howells described the massive…
The Original KiKi Man Monkey
.... to be added...-Madeleine Hodges
The Press on the Field, Contraband News, In Action, Reliable Information, Newspapers at Home, The Sketchbook, and The Newspapers in Camp.
Nast cartoon shows the variety of ways the press obtained information and the full circle of the process from obtaining the news to reading it at camp and at home. Image includes receipt of information from soldier and from escaped slaves joining…
The Rossow Midgets, Star Speciality Co.
The image presented by this poster is intriguing because it combines the more low-brow entertainment of the sideshow with the victorian respectability of glove-boxing. But, as crude of a show as this might seem, or seem to be advertised, it is…