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Item #632054SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, January 23, 1904 The front cover has "The Accepted Design for the Manhattan Bridge Across the East River, New York, as it Will Appear When Completed" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "New Electric Sleeping Car for Service Between Indianapolis and Columbus,... Read full description -
Item #632053SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 20, 1884 The front cover has "The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Frankel's Registering Dynamometer"; "The Economic Motor Co.'s New Gas Engine"; "The Camel Corps of the... Read full description -
Item #632051SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 1, 1899 The front cover has "Typical Perpetual Motion Fraud" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Automobile Brougham for a City Physician"; "Head of Tylosaurus"; "Fossil Sea Lizard"; "The Proposed Twin Tunnel Beneath the East... Read full description -
Item #632047THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 11, 1932
* Gene Sarazen wins British Open
* American professional golfer
The top of the front page has a two column heading: "Sarazen Wins the British Open Golf Title; Lowers Bobby Jones's Record by 2 Strokes" First report coverage continues in the sport's section (page 10) with photo and stats.
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Item #632041THE CLEVELAND PRESS, July 2, 1973
* Secretariat wins Arlington Invitational
* Post Triple Crown horse races
The sport's section (page C-7) has a two column heading: "Secretariat returns to N.Y. after victory at Arlington" (see) First report coverage on Secretariat winning the Arlington Invitational at Arlington Heights, Illinois.
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Item #632039ALBANY EVEING NEWS, New York, July 5, 1934
* Night of the Long Knives aftermath
* Adolph Hitler - Franz Von Papen
The front page has a three column headline: "VON PAPEN'S OUSTER SURE, NAZIS REPORT, WHILE STRIFE THREATENS WHOLE NATION" with subheads that include: "Anti-Jewish Feeling Revives--Farmers' Attitude... Read full description -
Item #632036SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, August 5, 1893 The front cover has "The World's Columbian Exposition - The French Locomotive Exhibit - The Bethlehem Iron Co.'s Exhibit" (Pennsylvania) with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The Edison Electric Light Suits" the recent ruling on the patent;... Read full description -
Item #632034SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, August 26, 1893 The front cover has "World's Columbian Exposition - An Entrance to the Palace of Agriculture" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Improved Circular and Elliptical Boring Machine"; "Nasmyth's Torpedo Boat of 1853";... Read full description -
Item #632031SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 3, 1893 The front cover has "World's Columbian Exposition - The Exhibit of Windmills" and "... The Palace of Agriculture" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The World's Columbian Exposition - The Famous 999" (railroad engine);... Read full description -
Item #632028SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 24, 1893 The front cover has "World's Columbian Exposition -United States Government Exhibits of River and Harbor Improvements" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Group of Effigies Near Fort Atkinson Wisconsin"; "Japanese at the World's Columbian... Read full description -
Item #632027SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 17, 1892 The front cover has "World's Columbian Exposition - Present Appearance of Buildings" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Making Wood Screws"; "Searching for Sunken Gold Near Hell Gate, New York"; and more illustrations,... Read full description -
Item #632020SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 9, 1893 The front cover has "The World's Columbian Exposition - Triumphal Arch and Peristyle, Court of Honor" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The World's Columbian Exposition - Creamery and Dairy Exhibits of the Vermont Farm machine Co."; "...View from the... Read full description -
Item #632019SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 8, 1907 The front cover has "The One-Thousand-Foot Four-Track Arch Bridge of the Connecting Railway which Will Span the East River, New York" with an accompanying article. This the railway bridge at Hell's Gate. Inside the issue is: "The Two Cruising Motor Boats Entered in... Read full description -
Item #632009THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 28, 1931
* David Bruce death (1st report)
* Scottish pathologist & microbiologist
* M. Hoke Smith death (1st report)
* Governor of Georgia & senator
Page 17 has a one column heading: "HOKE SMITH IS DEAD; EX-SENATOR WAS 76" with subheads and photo. (see)
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Item #631955SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 27, 1869 The front page has "Maurice's Patent Autographic Press" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Davis' Patent Culinary Steam Generator"; "Samuels' Patent Hand Crank Velocipede"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631951FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED, New York, Sept. 6, 1894 The front page features a full illustration of: "The New Union Railway Station at St. Louis, Missouri". Inside includes a full page "Picturesque Minnesota Summer Resorts" with five photos. A full page: "Maneuvers of the Detachment of the Regular Army... Read full description -
Item #631942SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 26, 1874 The front page has "Railway Bridge Near York, England" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The Underground Railway in New York - The Great Arch Near 95th Street" [what appears to be the Mount Prospect Tunnel]; "Trying-Up and Four-Cutter Planing... Read full description -
Item #631940PHOENIX GAZETTE, Sept. 18, 1975 and the ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Phoenix, March 21, 1976
* Patty Hearst, convicted bank robber, captured
* Newspaper heiress, socialite, actress & kidnap victim
* Simbonese Liberation Army SLA - Sentencing
A nice pair of issues almost 3 years apart with headlines: "PATTY HEARST CAPTURED!" and:... Read full description -
Item #631939LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, April 5, 1951
* Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced
* Russian spies - Atomic bomb
* Electric chair - Sing Sing prison in New York
The banner headline announces: "BULLETIN: Two Convicted Atom Bomb Spies Are Sentenced To Death" with smaller subheads as well.... Read full description -
Item #631936SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 9, 1910 The front page has "The Two Highest Masonry Bridges in the World" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "A Colossal Illuminated Advertising Display"; "Novel Electric Towing Locomotive for Canal Locks"; and more illustrations, articles and... Read full description -
Item #631922SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 23, 1893 The front page has "The World's Columbian Exposition - A General View" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Jean Martin Charcot"; "Apparatus for Registering the Running of Trains"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631921SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 16, 1904 The front page has "The Festival Hall, the Central and Dominating Structure of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The New Manhattan Wire-Cable Suspension Bridge Across the East River as it Will Appear When... Read full description -
Item #631914SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, November 25, 1893 The front page has "Electric Launches at the Columbian Exposition" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "New Fire Alarm"; "Four Hundred Horse Power Compound Mill Engine"; "The New United States War Ship Columbia"; and more illustrations, articles and... Read full description -
Item #631902SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 1, 1883 The front page has "The Great Cantilever Bridge over Niagara River" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Cassedy's Fire Escape"; "Locomotive with Electric Head Lights and Electric Machine"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631900SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 12, 1870 The front page has "Viaduct on the Paris and Orleans Railway, France" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The Measurement of Power -- Emerson's Dynamometer"; "Testing the Power of Turbine Water Wheels"; "Jerome B. King's Self-adjusting Double... Read full description -
Item #631898SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 16, 1894 The front page has "Proposed Bridge over the Hudson River, at New York" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Hendrich's Unicycle"; "The Fireproof building Construction of the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company"; "Crane's Oscillating... Read full description -
Item #631883SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 8, 1919 The front color-cover page has "Steamer Taking Oil from an Oil Storage Craft Developed in England" with an accompanying article. The front page has "Proposed vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river - a double-decked structure providing for three lines of traffic on each roadway" with an... Read full description -
Item #631882SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, April 20, 1901 The front color-cover has "St. George Reef Light, California". Inside the issue is: "Was the Cave Man a House-builder?"; "Acres of Radio"; "Beacons of Safety"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631881SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, April 20, 1901 The front page has "Construction of the New East River Bridge" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Stern-Wheel Steamers on the Mississippi"; "Making Large Plaster Cast"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
Complete in sixteen pages, never bound, a bit... Read full description -
Item #631877SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, February 1, 1908 The front page has "The Erection of the Great Steel Towers of the Manhattan Suspension Bridge, New York" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "An Open-Air Veneer Machine"; "Hour Our Measurers of Length Are Tested"; "A Famous Taxidermist and His... Read full description -
Item #631876SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 17, 1897 The front page has "Third Avenue Drawspan Across the Harlem River, New York" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "An Oil Field in the Suburbs of Los Angeles, California"; "The Denudation and Recovery of Farm Lands"; and more illustrations, articles and... Read full description -
Item #631874DAVENPORT DAILY GAZETTE, Iowa, Sept. 4, 1861
* Uncommon Civil War publication
* False report on Jefferson Davis' death
The front page has: "The War News" "Reported Death of Jeff. Davis" with the report noting: "A dispatch has been received to-day from Richmond via Louisville, announcing THE DEATH OF... Read full description -
Item #631870MY WEEKLY READER, The Junior Newspaper, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1945 Some of you may remember getting this newspaper in school. Here is an early issue with much on the closing months of World War II.
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Item #631869NEW YORK TIMES, May 24, 1862 Among the front page column heads are war reports including; "Operations Against Richmond" "The National Forces Crossing the Chickahominy at Two Points" "Our Advance Within Five Miles of the Rebel Capital" "The Arrival of Beauregard" "The Rebel Army... Read full description -
Item #631847THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, March 10, 1932
* Eamon De Valera elected president
* Fianna Fail - Dail
* Ireland - Irish
The front page has one column headings that include: "DE VALERA ELECTED PRESIDENT BY DAIL", "Cheered as He is Selected to Head Cabinet--Chooses Republican Aides", "Takes Oath Of Allegiance" and... Read full description -
Item #631842THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 16, 1932
* May 15 Incident - coup d'état attempt
* Imperial Japanese Navy & Army
* Inukai Tsuyoshi assassination
The top of the front page has a three column headline: "MILITARISTS KILL THE PREMIER IN TOKYO, BOMB BANKS, POLICE IN A DAY OF TERROR; SEVENTEEN IN UNIFORM THEN SURRENDER" with subheads.... Read full description -
Item #631819SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, January 17, 1885 The front page has "The Stiles Improved Press" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Smith's Ice Planing and Ridging Machine"; "Road Bridge Over the Ouse at Bedford"; "Locomotive Steam Bell"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631818SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 22, 1884 The front page has "The New Electric Light now in Process of Erection at Hell Gate, New York City" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Thurmond's Improved Car Coupling"; "Experiment with Oil on Troubled Waters"; and more... Read full description -
Item #631816SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, New York, October 11, 1919 The front page has "Testing Rifle Ammunition" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Airplane Mapping by the United States Army"; "Copying Fingerprints - II"; "Experimental Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony - VI"; "The Cooperage... Read full description -
Item #631814SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 19, 1892 The front page has "The Gatling Gun for Police Patrol Service" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Triple Expansion Surface Condensing Mill Engines"; "Davis' New Family Quilting Machine"; "The Great Overshot Water Wheel at Laxey Isle of Man";... Read full description -
Item #631812SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 2, 1894 The front page has "An Illustrated History of Breech-Loading Guns" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "The London Gigantic Wheel"; "Triple Boiler Locomotive, Belgian State Railway"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631806PACIFIC EMPRESS "A Newspaper Printed & Published Daily Aboard Canadian Pacific Steamships", Jan. 20, 1939 An interesting newsletter printed on board a ship with various travel-related items with advertisements as well.
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Item #631805SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, January 24, 1885 The front page has "Bridge with Movable Floor System" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Jenkins' Check Billiard Marker"; "Tregea's Automatic Signal for Railroad Crossings"; "Improved Hyraulic Dredger"; and more illustrations,... Read full description -
Item #631802SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, March 10, 1883 The front page has "Experimental Applications of Electricity for Balloon Propulsion" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Kriegar's Foundry Cupola"; "The Isometric Governor"; "C. P. Willard & Co's Vertical Engineer"; and more illustrations,... Read full description -
Item #631801SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 7, 1883 The front page has "Rondout Bridge, New York West Shore, and Buffalo Railroad" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Dr. Hubbard's Chemical Vaporizer and Deodorizer"; "Beavers at Work"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631800SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, July 21, 1883 The front page has "Design for Bascule Bridge over River Thames Below London Bridge" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is: "Herrington's System of Transportation and Delivery"; "An Aerial Turbine Wheel"; and more illustrations, articles and advertisements.
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Item #631797SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, September 22, 1883 The front page has "the New Bridge over the Monongahela River at Pittsburg, PA" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is "Metamorphosis of Deer's Antlers"; "Completion of the Great Northern Pacific Railroad"; and more articles, illustrations and... Read full description -
Item #631796SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, April 29, 1876 The front page has "Callowhill Street Bridge, Philadelphia, PA" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is "Legouge's Method of Propelling Canal Boats"; "Broken Stone Road-Making - Blake's Crusher"; and more articles, illustrations and... Read full description -
Item #631795SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, November 25, 1899 The front page has "Present Condition of the Paris Exposition of 1900" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is "Romer Shoals Lighthouse, New York Harbor"; "The Gypsy Moth"; and more articles, illustrations and advertisements.
Complete in sixteen pages, never bound,... Read full description -
Item #631794SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, November 30, 1895 The front page has "The Atlanta Exposition - Electricity Building, Looking Across Clara Meer" with an accompanying article. Inside the issue is "A Recent Railway Accident in Paris"; "Bird's Eye View of the New Port of Copenhagen"; "The New Steamer St. Paul of the... Read full description
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