The bicycle is “a money and time saving proposition. It appeals so strongly to the hundreds of thousands of working people who are making practical use of it every day more »
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The 20th century saw the advance of many labor-saving appliances. Vacuum cleaners were particularly targeted to women, becoming more portable by the 1920’s and emphasizing the increased importance attributed to hygiene and health. In more »
recto: Rembrandt Peale (born Bucks County, PA, 1778; died Philadelphia, PA,1860) verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Rembrandt Peale was born into a family of artists during the more »
May is a month of many things, including asparagus. The Libraries features seed catalogs, all from 1898.—Elizabeth Periale Livingston's Seed Store, 11th Annual Seed Catalogue, 1898, Front Cover F.C. more »
The Cooper Union Building, Astor Place. New York City c. 1869-70. The Kubler Collection, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Roma Korris, 85, is one of the Cooper-Hewitt’s Library’s most valued volunteers. more »
Libraries trade literature, Cord Cabriolet – Open, Cord Automobile Company The application due date for the 2010 Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program is more »
The Libraries features the Album Mexicano. The portrait in the upper left is famous general Santa Anna.—Elizabeth Periale Plate 15, Album mexicano : retratos de los personages ilustres de la more »