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The Past and the Future
Chromolithograph by Thomas Nast. Nast was a famous cartoonist in the nineteenth century. This image was first published in Harper's Weekly, Jamuary 24, 1864. It was reproduced as a chromolithograph and sold at the Great Central Fair, also know as…
Radiator Building--Night, New York
Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of the New York skyscraper is one example of the many ways artist tried new styles to capture the new nights of brightly lit cities. David Nye describes this version as one of the more positive depictions of the city,…
On the Iron Pier, Coney Island. The rush for the last boat
Ogden's illustration is of passengers on one of the two Iron Piers built in 1878 on Coney Island. Here the illustration attempts to capture the sheer amount of people that would await the steamboats-in the year of the art's creation almost 2 million…
General Reille berbringt König Wilhelm I. auf dem Schlachtfelde von Sedan September 1870 das Schreiben Kaiser Napoleons (General Reille delivers King Wilhelm I on the battlefield of Sedan the letter from Emperor Napoleon III)
A mural depicting the surrender of French troops to the German Empire at Sedan in 1870. While this particular mural was completed in 1884, it retains the aspects of the painting shown at the Philadelphia Centennial that angered W.D. Howells, with one…
(Joice Heth) ben horwitz with some technical difficulties
c. 1835, Joice Heth represented the beginnings of PT Barnum's career in the circus, but her success bore testament to PT Barnum's ability to recognize and exploit the desires of the American public. As given by the Thompson quote below, Americans…
"Photographs"
A string-bound "Drum/Mills Family Photo Album"ben horwitz