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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,…

FROM WEBSITE:"Giannotti Studios announces an Anniversary Edition resin/bronze statuette of HADROSAURUS FOULKII, each hand-signed by John Giannotti, sculptor of the full-size bronze of the dinosaur that stands in the center of Haddonfield, New Jersey.…

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…

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While this serves as a brief opening vignette for Nye's piece on "Rededicating the Statue of Liberty," Wright's flight around the Statue— and its portrayal in the "Journal of Civilization" says a lot about American attitudes towards…

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…

This is an article from Chicago Tribune, Electricity at the Fair, broadcasting the electrified Chicago World Fair in 1893. Chicago Tribune is a newspaper media worldwide. There is a specific article introducing the electricity in the Chicago Fair,…