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From the End of the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era, 1893-1918

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 Advertisement

This advertisement for the A. Schoenhut Company appeared in 1912, the year of founder Albert Schoenhut’s death. It featured two…

Adler, Cone, & Shipley Advertisement

During the Civil War, Herman Cone resided in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Although most residents of the town (and the surrounding area)…

Advertisement for an early American silver brazier by John Coney

Advertisement for an early American silver brazier by John Coney (1655-1722), Arts & Decoration, March 1921, p. 419.

Advertisement for Dairy Brand ham

Advertisement for Farmers and Merchants Bank

In 1871, Hellman founded the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles with former California governor John G. Downey and…

Advertisement for Fey’s gum attachment

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 Fair

The 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 quickly

This poster by the National Industrial Conservation Movement shows a man/agitator receiving an Iron Cross from Kaiser Wilhelm in “Plot…

Alger Estate Agreement

According to an unpublished archival biography of Stratemeyer, “after reading the boys’ books of Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger, Jr.,…

America’s Most Unique Basement

The following article, published in 1915 in The Dry Goods Reporter, lays out the policies behind Filene’s Automatic Bargain Basement…

American Brewing Company’s Bock Beer Advertisement, 1890

In January 1890, Henry, Jr., Oscar, and Hugo Koehler founded the American Brewery Company on the site of their former…

Anheuser-Busch advertisement

Anheuser-Busch advertisement, May 19, 1892. The advertisement suggests that people generally preferred Anheuser-Busch bottled beer to wine. Interestingly, this did…

Anheuser-Busch advertisement announcing the completion of the new brew house

Anheuser-Busch advertisement announcing the completion of the new brew house, February 27, 1892. According to the advertisement, the addition of…

Anheuser-Busch advertisement for Malt-Nutrine

Anheuser-Busch advertisement for Malt-Nutrine, May 13, 1895. The advertisement, which was clearly geared toward female consumers, shows two upper-class women…

Anheuser-Busch Advertisement: First Brewery to Introduce Pasteurized Bottled Beer in America

Anheuser-Busch Advertisement: First Brewery to Introduce Pasteurized Bottled Beer in America. From: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, Vol. LXXV, No. 1939…

Announcement of the Homebuilders Club in "The Craftsman"

The year 1904 saw the introduction of Stickley’s Craftsman Homebuilders Club, which published home plans for middle-class families. The club…

Annual Report of the Kaiser Wilhelm School [Kaiser-Wilhelm-Schule] in Shanghai for the 1913/14 Academic Year

The Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai offered a German-language, German-centered education to the children of German immigrants, merchants, businessmen, and…

Arsenal Brewery Advertisement, Davenport, Iowa

In 1872, Henry Koehler, Sr., and his brother-in-law Rudolf Lange purchased the Arsenal Brewery at Front & Mound Streets in…

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