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Eskimo exhibit on the Pay Streak of the AYP Expo
The facade of the "Eskimo" exhibit at the AYP Expo. Popular "Queen of the Paystreak" Nancy Columbia, a member of the Labrador Inuits, stands behind the dog seated on the ground. Columbia had traveled with her mother and the Eskimo exhibit since her…
Eliza Jane Baile's "Bride's" Quilt
From: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_556365Eliza Jane Baile lovingly stitched and inscribed this cotton album quilt top, finishing a few weeks after her marriage to Levi Manahan in 1851. Original patterns of wreaths of…
Doll House
The dining room in a mid-19th-century English dollhouse from the Allerton Cushman III collection
De Laval Cream Separator Advertisement
this advertisement features a woman operating a cream separator, and it promotes the advantages to owning one.
Dairymaid Milking a Cow
Detail of stereopticon image of bas-relief butter
sculpture of a dairymaid milking a cow. Washington state
dairy exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,
1904. (Author’s collection.)
sculpture of a dairymaid milking a cow. Washington state
dairy exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,
1904. (Author’s collection.)
Constructing the Japanese Pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
From Japanese description: Craftsmen under construction at the Japan Pavilion "Phoenix Hall" of the Chicago World Exposition (1893)
Confederate dead behind a stone wall at Fredericksburg, PA
This was a photograph taken by Mathew Brady, who tried to this a new medium, photography, to capture the Civil War.