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- Calen McGee

A poster advertising "Liberty Loans" early on in the United States' involvement in World War I. With the Statue of Liberty in the background looming over the ferries heading towards the Ellis Island, this poster was aimed at recent immigrants and…

A proposal by the journeyman laborers associated with shipbuilding, directed towards the master shipbuilders, for a 10-hour workday. - Bradford Gladstone

In this photograph, there is interesting focus on the non-spectacular of the circus—there are no large crowds, the tents are in the background, and no performers are presenter. What is spectacular is simply the sheer number of horses in comparison to…

The first image is the colorful program of the procession in Wasshington D.C. on March 3, 1913. The second image is a lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain on a horse, about to lead the procession. Looking at these two images side-by-side, it is possible…

These images are of the Woman's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The images are  from the book Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893. The first is a photograph of the…