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This is a poster for "A National Song", a composition for parades being sold by a company in Philadelphia
Added by Ben Kaplow

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

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…

The most splendid set evermade in the United States was that ordered by Mr. Mackey, one of the ownersof the Bonanza silver-mines, in 1877, which comprised several hundred piecesof elaborately made solid-silver ware, including an enormous punch-bowl…

Along with the Dreaming Iolanthe, Caroline Brooks also created the Awakening of Iolanthe in 1878. It bears a striking resemblance to Dreaming Iolanthe though created two years later. The amount of detail in the sculpture shows that she knew the…

This is a butter sculpture of Pres. Roosevelt that was presented at the 1905 St. Louis World's Fair. The photograph appears to be taken in the artist's studio rather than an exhibitionary situation.

An aerial view of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds and racetrack in 1937, nine years after the fair attended by Basil Lee in F. Scott Fitzgerald's A Night at the Fair. The racetrack is the same as the one described in the story, which reveals the…

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…

This is a depiction of Japanese porcelain ware in the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition.