Materiality and Spectacle 2015

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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…

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It seems to show two soldiers (one of which is injured/wounded) at an abandoned/war-torn base. The location is unknown.

- Calen McGee

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These are images of one poster that was painted on the side of a building. The poster was painted in 1910 in a farming town called Vincent in Iowa. The town has a population of about 200 which is interesting that the circus would set up in that…

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Branch of the WCAR.
"The report of thetreasurer of the Sanitary Commission shows that from June 27, 1861, to July 1, 1865, the receipts from the Sanitary fairs in the principalcities were $4,813,730.61, and the disbursements .$-l,530,77-t.95,…
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