25th anniversary of Keuffel & Esser Co.On Tuesday, July 19, 1892, Keuffel & Esser Co. celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with a company picnic at Berg’s Oriental…
A. Schoenhut Company Newspaper AdvertisementThis advertisement for the A. Schoenhut Company appeared in 1912, the year of founder Albert Schoenhut’s death. It featured two…
A. Schoenhut Factory and Warehouse, Philadelphia, ca. 1912This drawing from a 1912 book on Philadelphia manufacturers shows the Schoenhut factory and offices at Adams and Sepviva Streets…
A. Schoenhut Storefront, 1875In 1872, Albert Schoenhut began to manufacture toys in a storefront at 2337 Frankford Avenue in the Kensington neighborhood of…
Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer with Children, n.d.This photograph shows a middle-aged Harriet Stratemeyer Adams with two young children, presumably avid readers of juvenile literature by the…
Addams, Jane, ca. 1913Portrait of social reformer Jane Addams (1860-1935) of the Hull House, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1913.
Adler, Cone, & Shipley AdvertisementDuring the Civil War, Herman Cone resided in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Although most residents of the town (and the surrounding area)…
Adolph Lewisohn – Kupfermagnat im “Goldenen Zeitalter”Created By: Albrecht, Henning Publisher: Hamburg, 2013.
Advertisement for an early American silver brazier by John ConeyAdvertisement for an early American silver brazier by John Coney (1655-1722), Arts & Decoration, March 1921, p. 419.
Advertisement for Farmers and Merchants BankIn 1871, Hellman founded the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles with former California governor John G. Downey and…
Advertisement for Gebelein's Silver Shop“A Shop of Old Interesting Silver,” advertisement in Antiques, July 1922.
Advertisement for Keuffel & Esser Co. in the program of the Hoboken Academy FairThe Hoboken Academy was a private German school founded by Saxon immigrant Adolf Douai in 1860. Keuffel served as president…
Agitation which delays our war industries is ‘made in Germany.’ Let us all pull together to win the war quicklyThis poster by the National Industrial Conservation Movement shows a man/agitator receiving an Iron Cross from Kaiser Wilhelm in “Plot…
Al Ringling Theater, Baraboo, Wisconsin, after 1933The Al Ringling Theater, which was completed in 1915, originally seated 874 and was modeled after the opera house in…
Alger Estate AgreementAccording to an unpublished archival biography of Stratemeyer, “after reading the boys’ books of Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger, Jr.,…
Alien Enemies Standing in Line during a Transfer from Fort McPherson to Fort Oglethorpe, ca. 1918After America entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson declared all German citizens in the U.S. “alien enemies.” They were barred…
Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer and His Executive Staff, 1918After the passage of the Trading with the Enemy Act in October 1917, all German citizens in the United States…
