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The State Library has selected certain objects from my family home to inspire their scholars and fellows program — an upholstered mid-20th century armchair, a large 19th century pedestal desk ...
A collection of political fables from late-19th- and early-20th-century Great Britain offers ... to the politically minded children’s books of today, which tend not to be embedded in robust ...
some of the glass plates reproduced in this book depict family homesteads in the woods or children posed in outdoor settings. In the early 20th century, reformers interested in protecting ...
There is nothing new about dystopian fiction — it's been around since the early 20th century or late 19th century ... her need to write this particular book. Kallocain's narrator, Leo Kall ...
In a new book ... 20th-century America. In 1889, a century after the birth of the U.S. Constitution, political cartoons of the era mocked the thuggish bosses and sleazy reporters, who dominated ...
After the end of the Little Ice Age, during the late 19th century and into the early 20th century ... The first instructional book about ice skating was published in London in 1772.
Sotheby's is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring. They span "masterpieces of the late 19th century to pioneering ...
A popular 20th-century book has finally been returned to an Ohio public library, and it’s only 98 years late ... “It sat on my desk for a month or more before I really got to it, ...