Illustration

John Jacob Astor. Engraving made from the drawing by Pierre Morand, November 12, 1842.

John Jacob Astor standing on the shore of a lake with rifle and his foot on a punt buying furs…

Portrait of John Jacob Astor, drawn by R. Roberts.

Cover of a booklet created as an advertisement for Duke Brothers and Company, Durham, N.C., and packed in Duke's cigarettes.…

John Jacob Astor, copied from a painting by Alonzo Chappell

Astoria, John Jacob Astor's trading post on the Pacific Coast (now Astoria, Oregon), 1812 (the Paul Mall Magazine, n.d., pg.…

A selection of labels produced for the Audubon Cellars wine series.

A badge showing an early depiction of Sailor Jack.

Baer’s Original Schematic, September 6, 1966.

Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, poster ca 1918

Beet sugar production — a subsidized industry. From: Beet Sugar Gazette 5 (1903): 294.

Poster for the first Ben-Hur road company, Chicago, 1901.

Two (or more) chariots of four horses each were cranked forward or backward by windlasses under the stage. The machinery,…

Page from the Ben-Hur souvenir program sold at performances.

1877 portrait of Phillip Best when he was in his early sixties. The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery…

“A View of Bethlehem, one of the Brethren’s Principal Settlements, in Pennsylvania,” copper engraving, 14 ½” x 18 ½.”