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Experience warm wishes and happy remembrances of Christmas through postcards, rural carrier cards, and business trade cards organized chronologically from the 1880s through the 1920s. Over 740 beautiful and charming color images show how Christmas sentiments, card designs, and that right jolly old elf Santa himself…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Forty lashes for committing adultery? Children taken from their parents for being unruly? Loss of an ear – or even your life — for stealing? These were the harsh punishments doled out for such crimes in Colonial America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Learn what happened to horse thieves…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The Lincoln funeral and the nearly 1,700-mile epic journey of the funeral train was the biggest single event to happen in the lives of American citizens at the time. At least seven million people—without the aid of radio, television, or internet—actually witnessed some part of the historic occasion. Eyewitness accounts…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This highly comprehensive volume includes all 44 American presidents, from the nation’s first to the most recent. Concise text highlights their lives, the times, and political climate in which they lived. American presidents all appear on a postcard or two, as well as engravings, newspapers, product premium…
258 color images trace Cleveland’s growth from modest beginnings in 1900 to thriving manufacturing city in the 1960s. Tour Euclid Park, Public Square, the Municipal Airport, and Playhouse Square and see for yourself that the city of Cleveland was one of the most important cities of its time “from any view point.”