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Illustration of a New York tenement house

U.S. document that banned corrupt monopolies in the business world.

This is a public ad after the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act

African American children learning about Thanksgiving, with model log cabin on table

Picture of Albert Fall,

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…

A photograph of Andrew Carnegie

An anti-suffragist pamphlet explaining why women should not have the right to vote

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