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258 color images trace Cleveland's growth from modest beginnings in
1900 to thriving manufacturing city in the 1960s. Tour Euclid Park,
Public Square, the Municipal Airport, and Playhouse Square and see
for yourself that the city of Cleveland was one of the most
important cities of its time from any view point.
This highly comprehensive volume includes all 44 American
presidents, from the nation's first to the most recent. Concise
text highlights their lives, the times, and political climate in
which they lived. American presidents all appear on a postcard or
two, as well as engravings, newspapers, product premium cards,
trading cards, magazine illustrations, and official White House
photographs. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were featured on
virtually thousands of postcards over the years, while Franklin
Pierce and Rutherford Hayes appeared on considerably fewer. The
remarkable illustrations bring the faces to life and make this an
enjoyable and essential reference for historians, students of
presidents, postcard collectors, and those interested in U.S.
presidential memorabilia.
Experience warm wishes and happy remembrances of Christmas through
postcards, rural carrier cards, and business trade cards organized
chronologically from the 1880s through the 1920s. Over 740
beautiful and charming color images show how Christmas sentiments,
card designs, and that right jolly old elf Santa himself changed
with the times. The engaging text provides a brief history of
postcard production, a discussion of Santa's enduring image, key
postcard artists and publishers, and valuations for postcards. This
is an essential volume for postcard collectors and all who love the
Christmas season.
Forty lashes for committing adultery? Children taken from their
parents for being unruly? Loss of an ear - or even your life -- for
stealing? These were the harsh punishments doled out for such
crimes in Colonial America during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Learn what happened to horse thieves and Sabbath
breakers or people engaging in idleness in the thirteen original
colonies. Accompanied by 30 postcard images, more than twenty-five
"crimes" are covered in this view of law and justice in the 1600s
and 1700s. It'll make you appreciate that you live in the
twenty-first century.
The Lincoln funeral and the nearly 1,700-mile epic journey of the
funeral train was the biggest single event to happen in the lives
of American citizens at the time. At least seven million
people-without the aid of radio, television, or internet-actually
witnessed some part of the historic occasion. Eyewitness accounts
from nearly 150 years ago and historic images present this
remarkable journey of President Abraham Lincoln's remains, from the
nation's Capitol to his final resting place in Springfield,
Illinois. More than 440 cities, towns, villages and byways were on
the route in 1865, and each is included in this fascinating volume.
The veteran author draws from reports, documents, and contemporary
narratives to finally fully present the event. Long-forgotten
photographs and dozens of Lincoln-handled documents are included,
adding further authentic flavor to this enthrallingly detailed,
true-story of the historic Lincoln Funeral Train.
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