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Homeopathic Bibliography of the United States, from the Year 1825 to the Year 1891, Inclusive, comp. Thomas Lindsley Bradford (Philadelphia:…

Berlin Model Apartments and Workers’ Housing at the Krupp Company in Essen

Ideas for workers’ housing were comparatively advanced in turn-of-the-century Germany, and many American reformers followed developments there closely. Illustrations from…

Boas, Emil Leopold, Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, 1904

Emil Leopold Boas, Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, 190. From: Prominent and Progressive Americans. An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography,…

Californian Pioneer: Claus Spreckels Obituary

An obituary reports the death of a person and gives an account of his or her life. In this case,…

Castle in the Town: Spreckels’ Van Ness Street Mansion

Spreckels’ Van Ness mansion was one of the most expensive private California homes of its time. Its architecture was similar…

Coolie System and the Yellow Press: Criticism of the Spreckels Sugar Plantations

In the fall of 1881, the San Francisco Chronicle, an early adopter of the so-called “yellow press” style of journalism,…

Frontispiece depicting Constantine Hering, Jacob Jeanes, and Walter Williamson, founders of the Hom[o]eopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. From: Thomas Lindsley…

Gemünder, August Portrait

August Gemünder Portrait, from Frank D. Abbott's Musical Instruments at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1895, page 178

Gruen, Dietrich Portrait, n.d.

Portrait of Dietrich Gruen, the founder of the Gruen Watch Company, which blended European watchmaking traditions with the efficiencies and…

Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania

Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania building, 1105 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. From: Thomas Lindsley Bradford, History of the Homoeopathic Medical College…

Kessel, Adam (1867-1946)

Adam Kessel (1867–1946), pictured in the series “Who’s Who in the Film Game,” Motography, Nov. 1, 1913.

King, Richard Portrait, n.d.

Richard King (1824-1885), founder of the King Ranch, was the quintessential early entrepreneur of the Texas frontier. King was born…

Letchworth Garden City, ca. 1913

American architects, urban planners, and reformers drew inspiration from European models, particularly the turn-of-the-century Garden City movement, which started with…

Medal won by George Gemünder at the 1883 Amsterdam International Exposition

Mergenthaler, Ottmar Portrait

Portrait of Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype machine. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits…

Mergenthaler, Ottmar’s first band machine of 1883

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s first band machine of 1883. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits and many…

Mergenthaler, Ottmar’s first direct casting band machine of 1883

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s first direct casting band machine of 1883 (also known as his second band machine). From: Leading American inventors,…

Mergenthaler, Ottmar’s New York Tribune machine of 1886

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s New York Tribune machine of 1886. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits and…

New York Motion Picture Company advertisement in the trade publication Moving Picture World

New York Motion Picture Company advertisement in the trade publication Moving Picture World, March 21, 1914, pg. 1557.

Rueckheim, Frederick portrait

Frederick Rueckheim portrait. From: Men of Illinois (Chicago: Halliday Witherspoon, 1902), 352.

Texas Bank & Trust Co. Advertisement

Advertisement for the Texas Bank & Trust Co. From Galveston in a Nutshell (1904), 40.

What Kind of a Fellow Is – Kessel?

“What Kind of a Fellow Is – Kessel?” Motion Picture News, March 9, 1918, pg 1419-1420.

Who’s Who in the Film Game

“Who’s Who in the Film Game,” Motography, Nov. 1, 1913.