Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Atlantic_City_NJ when the Republic had begun

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A commemorative engraving of the obelisk completed at last after decades of stalled subscription and civil war

Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi

The Hauck Cocktail Shaker Patent Victorian Mixology Blueprint reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Atlantic_City_NJ when the Republic had begunGreat Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 a chromolithograph broadside trumpeting the kind of late century exposition where electric light, ribboned livestock, and civic boosterism shared a single fairground. Its typography swells with the ornamented confidence of an America convinced that bigness itself was a virtue worth advertising. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National