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T.S. Baldwin's "Practical Telephone Hand Book" was one of many introducing the new technology to Americans

This painting displays a park scene using a variety of pastels, dusty colors, and vivid greens. We see a sandy sky and cool-toned trees in the background; the middle ground hosts a hedgerow outlined on the bottom with a vivid row of red flowers. In…

Showing the township designated 014.0N - 003.0W, this map of "Indian country" prepared the way for white settlement of tribal lands. The 160 acres claimed by Sheffield Peabody is at the upper right of the map.

One of many other "Eighty-Niners" or "Sooners" who were part of the land rush to formerly Native American territories, Peabody had to live on this location long enough to establish a claim. It was granted on 4 June 1895.

Publication in the USDA "Farmers' Bulletin" series focuses upon the 8 million women who "work every day, and most of them many hours a day, in the farm kitchens of the United States." The emphasis is upon careful design and planning of kitchens so as…

Baumbach’s work depicts a summer landscape in what appears to be a rural farm town from an aerial view. The colors are bright, and cool tone variations of green dominate much of the space. The greens are contrasted by a blue waterway and a yellow…

Powerful image uses a full moon as circular background for silhouette of a howling wolf atop a rock outcropping. On the reverse side of this page is another image, probably also by Bautista, that is a more stylized line drawing of two figures…

Bayard has painted a still life of a blue vase of flowers on the end table. A small wooden box sits next to the vase. The table, box, and wall behind the vase all are a deep reddish brown; this color makes up much of the photo. The flowers in the…

In Monsters, white contour lines curve around humanoid figures. One figure is leaf shaped, stretching from the print’s top left corner to the bottom right. This leaf resembles a human face, with eyes, eyebrows, and even forehead lines at the top, a…

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