Bloede’s Dam on the Patapsco River near Ilchester, MD, ca. 1907Photograph of Bloede’s Dam on the Patapsco River near Ilchester, Maryland. Photograph by News American. Publisher: Jacques Kelly, c. 1907.
Boas, Emil Leopold, Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, 1904Emil Leopold Boas, Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, 190. From: Prominent and Progressive Americans. An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography,…
Boas, Emil portrait, 1904This portrait, painted at the height of Boas’s career, shows the forty-nine-year-old shipping manager at his desk in his office.
Boege Family GatheringBoege family gathering at the residence of Adolph Thomas, the president of the German American Bank. Anaheim, CA , May…
Bonniecrest, from “Greenwich Beautiful,” 1913Bonniecrest, the Boas family’s summer home in Greenwich, Connecticut, was built in 1904. After Emil Boas’s death in 1912, Harriet…
Bonniecrest, the Boas Family’s Summer Home in Greenwich, CT, n.d.In 1903, Emil and Harriet Boas purchased twenty-two acres of land in Greenwich, Connecticut, a wealthy New York City suburb.…
Bottles of Budweiser in a scene from a railroad restaurant car, 1904Framed lithograph of a scene in a railroad restaurant car, 1904. Two bottles of Budweiser, a full glass of beer,…
Boy Working in Sweatshop, 1889A twelve-year-old boy works as a thread puller in a New York clothing factory.
Brewery Delivery TruckThis delivery truck is parked outside of the main entrance to Heurich’s Water Street Brewery. Christian Heurich began using trucks…
Brooklyn Bridge under Construction, c. 1875-78Cables are put in place during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1875-78.
Busch PlaceUndated photograph of Busch Place. The image shows the gated entrance, as well as the drive and walkways leading to…
Busch, Adolphus Portrait, 1890sThree-quarter-length portrait of Adolphus Busch, 1890s. Busch holds a pair of pince-nez; his Anheuser-Busch eagle watch fob is suspended from…
Cantor Josef Rosenblatt, Josef Engels, and Adolf Lewisohn, May 6, 1926Composer and pianist Josef Engels (at the piano) reviews the score of King Solomon, the first Hebrew opera ever written.…
Carveth, Hector who taught chemistry at Cornell University before joining Roessler & Hasslacher in 1905Portrait of Dr. Hector Carveth, who taught chemistry at Cornell University before joining Roessler & Hasslacher in 1905.
Casa Boker, Mexico City, ca. 2007Mexico’s most important hardware store, Casa Boker, was founded in 1865 by Robert Böker of Remscheid. The business still exists…
Chandler, Billy in his Duesenberg, August 30, 1915Billy Chandler driving his Duesenberg at a speed of over 100 miles an hour, August 30, 1915.
Charred corpse of a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 1906Genthe’s images of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, like the one above of a charred corpse, capture the destruction…
Childhood Home of Julius Rosenwald, Springfield, ILJulius Rosenwald grew up in this comfortable house across the street from the Abraham Lincoln home in Springfield, Illinois.
