First delivery of electric power to the booming mining camps of Tonopah and Goldfield was in October, 1905. The following Fourth of July, miners and citizens enthusiastically celebrated the arrival of the electric age with a horse drawn float,...
Image of oranges on a branch with leaves and blossoms over an orchard, farm house and mountains. "Valuable.--Please Do Not Crush Or Bend. / This Sketch is the Property of / Lehmann / Printing and Lithographing Co. / San Francisco / 400-430 Fourth...
Image of a Zouave soldier with American flag and sword standing triumphantly over a fallen officer; background images of soldiers in town and houses burning. Wood engraving with letterpress type. "Capt. Caleb D. Weeks, / Recruiting Office, No. 388...
Image, from an unusual elevated perspective, looking down on the Philadelphia Bank Building designed by Benjamin Latrobe and located at the corner of Chestnut and Fourth Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with outbuilding, trees, gate, and...
Image of an eye-level close-up view of the Tyler Davidson Fountain at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, designed with allegorical figures; description of fountain printed in bottom margin.
One hundred mounted numbered albumen photographs of the operations of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, etc. Each numbered plate is accompanied by a page of descriptive letterpress.
"February 1969"--typed, front cover, top. Newsletter announcing new ports of call in South America, new excursions as well as continued special cruises in 1969.
Image is of a parade with mounted and foot participants (including Chinese) that winds up the sheet from side to side. Various flags are displayed. "Lith. of Cooke & Le Count."--text, below image. Paper color: blue.
Image is of the Plaza filled with people watching a parade of horse-drawn boat and barrel floats. In the background, despite the terrible fires of May and June of this year (as Baird notes), are several buildings facing the Plaza. These include a...
One set of nine drawing cards, untitled, some unnumbered, ca. 1890-1915. Eight of the 9 cards contain several color lithograph images printed against a light blue grid background. It appears that the cards had been numbered in the top left-hand...
One order form entitled Announcement: Turner Picture Studies and Picture Study Prints, published by Horace K. Turner Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1910. This 4-page form (1 sheet folded to create a 4-page leaflet) organizes images for sale by...
One bound set of engravings, untitled, unsigned, and undated (ca. 1780?). It is comprised of eight leaves of original engravings. The images are all portraits, some are single figures and others are multiple faces. The first is of a nude woman, and...