The results of the 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes were close enough to require recounts of ballots in Louisiana. President Ulysses S. Grant sent this telegram ...
Bostonians protested the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The court ruled that the First Amendment protected the right of corporations, associations, ...
Participants commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington carried posters that voiced concern over the possible erosion of gains made by the civil rights movement after the ...
The American Safety Lamp & Mine Supply Company hired M.D. Cremer of England to produce this lamp around 1913. M.D. This John Davis & Son safety lamp manufactured in the early 20th century is notable ...
Collections 1846 - Elias Howe Jr.'s Sewing Machine Patent Model Sewing Machine Patent Model. Patent No. 4,750, issued September 10, 1846. Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. While working as a ...
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at 3 P.M. annual Meeting of Bowery Bay Blg + Impt. Co, & Board of Trustees session, at 4 P.M. Matthias Gray Co. same, at 5 P.M. Steinway + Sons Comp. same. Though half dead I dictate from 8-11 P.M. a ...
This reed organ was made by Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. It is a cabinet style pump organ, serial #34435, with a single keyboard, with a compass of FF - f3, a knee stop, ...
Cookie Monster is a live-hand puppet originally performed by Frank Oz and currently performed by David Rudman. In a live-hand puppet, like Cookie Monster, one of the performer’s hands is in the puppet ...
Most Americans learned about digital electronic watches for the first time when the Pulsar came on the market in 1972. The Pulsar originated in a watch built by George Thiess and colleagues at ...
In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record sound and play it back. On the first audio recording Edison recited, “Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white ...