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Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated several experimental telephones at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. This unit features a single electro-magnet and could be used both as transmitter and receiver. Bell approached the problem of…
Industrial map of New York City : showing manufacturing industries, concentration, distribution, character / prepared by the Industrial Bureau of the Merchants' Association of New York.
Includes inset continuation map of Richmond and lists of manufacturing lines in New York City and the 5 boroughs.
1 map : col., mounted on linen 88 x 90 cm.
1 map : col., mounted on linen 88 x 90 cm.
Ref.: Traffic Jam Chicago, Illinois
An image that captures a very large traffic jam in Chicago, Illinois
Image of sketches of tenement houses
Composite of five scenes showing a slum and views of an improved apartment building with playground, clubroom, and library.
A tenement house in Mulberry Street / C.A. Vanderh[..]f. Inspection of fruit in New York markets, by order of the Board of Health / drawn by R. Lewis
Illustration of a New York tenement house
New York City, interior of tenement house
A photograph of the inside of a New York City tenement building
First Flight, December 17, 1903
The invention of the airplane
The Chicago Building of The Home Insurance Co. of New York
Print shows the 10-story building that is considered the world's first skyscraper. Designed by architect William LeBaron Jenney, it stood in Chicago 1885 - 1931. The print is in an original custom frame.
Arriving at Ellis Island
Immigrants and urban life at the turn of the 20th century