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First Flight, December 17, 1903

The invention of the airplane

Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated several experimental telephones at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. This unit features a single…

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…

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…

Arriving at Ellis Island

Immigrants and urban life at the turn of the 20th century

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

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.