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Village of Wayland, NY (1873)
Near top center, the warehouse of produce agents Capron and Fowler sits next to the Erie Railroad--where Sheffield Peabody sold much of his produce
Telephone Magneto
T.S. Baldwin's "Practical Telephone Hand Book" was one of many introducing the new technology to Americans
East Esplanade Bandstand, Pan-American Exposition of 1901
Held in Buffalo, NY, the wonders of Niagara Falls electricity were shown via 240,000 lightbulbs
Western Electric Company multiple switchboard
In order to handle increasing numbers of telephone calls, switchboards like this model from the 1880s employed operators to make connections between the parties. (Click on the image for diagrams illustrating the difference between single-line wires…
"Dawn of the Century" March & Two-Step, sheet music cover
Cover artwork shows allegorical woman holding a standard identifying her as "XXth Century". She has an electric light bulb atop her head and stands on a winged wheel, representing Progress. Around her are examples of modern technology and invention,…
The Miller's Will
Provided to YouTube by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings<br />
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The Miller's Will · The New Lost City Ramblers<br />
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New Lost City Ramblers - Vol. 4<br />
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℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1962 Folkways Records<br />
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Released on: 1962-01-01<br />
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The Farmery of Farmer Snug and Farmer Slack
The moral virtue of tidiness meets agriculture in this famous diptych from Solon Robinson's "Facts for Farmers" (1864), one of many visions of the model farm
Nursery Labels, 1868
19th growers traditionally used pencils on pine labels to identify their stock, but the development of printing presses led to mass-produced tags--a microcosm of revolutionary "branding" that was occurring to foods of all kinds.
Rochester Lithograph and Printing: letter to William A. Brodie
Commercial exchange concerns a Wadsworth family order of labels, perhaps for use upon nursery stock
View at Beaver Brook Falls, The Author's Residence
Located between the towns of Waltham and Belmont, MA the falls were the site of a mill that had burned down and remained a picturesque feature on the estate of landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland. The stream and appear to have been referenced…