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    NY Times: Ruth Newman, A Survivor Of The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies At 113(Post)

    Ruth Newman, a Survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies at 113 ...

    The Gold Rush’s Hazy Grays(Post)

    John W. Marshall inadvertently made — and changed — history on January 24, 1848, when the carpenter found bits of gold at entrepreneur John Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The men tried to keep ...

    Cloud Chasing Chariots: Early Yosemite Photographers(Post)

    Imagine it’s 1860.  You want to capture the clouds over Yosemite. But you don’t just hold your hand above the sky, squint and take a picture. There are no hand-held cameras, no phones, no cars ...

    Read All About It! In Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper(Post)

    Whereas the Internet and cable television are the ways most receive their news today, in 1855 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News published its first issue with a run of only 30 copies. It was an inaus ...

    Susan Glaspell and Alison’s House(Post)

    News of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama elated the playwright, infuriated the theater critics, and surprised everyone. Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell beat out plays by such greats as Maxwell Ande ...

    Edward Penfield And The American Poster(Post)

    Edward Penfield’s first poster for Harper’s in 1893 shows a man in a green coat absorbed in reading a magazine while being splashed by raindrops; the display type accompanying the figure is as ma ...

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    AMERICAN MEMORY A great revolution in the history of poster prints was the development of printing techniques that allowed for inexpensive, mass production. The most notable of these, lithography, w ...

    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map(Page)

    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map Source: "The Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada", 2 nd ed, John R. Hebert, rev. by Patrick E Dempsey, 1984, Library of ...

    On Nostalgia - An Essay(Page)

        By Michael J. Simpson, MA History SYNOPSIS: This essay presents an exploration of the evolution of the concept of nostalgia from its inception in the late 17th century to its mo ...

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