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"The Presidential Puzzle" from the campaign of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Presidential election of 1932 was between Republican candidate and incumbent Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) and the Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945). This item is a small wooden puzzle, "The Presidential Puzzle," from the campaign of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
Unidentified industrial facility aerial photograph
This item is an aerial photograph of an unidentified facility.
Unidentified machine shop interior and workers photograph
A machine shop is a place where skilled workers use machine tools to make parts. The parts are usually made of metal or plastic, although other materials can be used. This photograph shows the interior of an unidentified machine shop with a group of workers.
Unidentified male workers group photograph
The railroad in Pennsylvania expanded greatly throughout late nineteenth century. This item is a photographic print showing posed group of twelve laborers photographed by industrial building near railroad track.
Unidentified printer sample album
Printing companies often produce sample books, which contain actual samples, not just illustrations. This album contains samples of stock printed dance cards, programmes, bills of fares, and tassels.
Unknown printers' sample book
Printing companies often produce sample books, which contain actual samples, not just illustrations. This album contains mostly small pre-printed cards either folded or meant to be folded and used as invitations, dance cards, and programs.
U.S. Route 1 plat, showing properties
Route 1 is a major north-south U.S. highway extending from Florida to Maine. The plat depicts a small portion of Route 1 between Hamorton and the Anvil Inn, including P.S. du Pont's (1870-1952) Longwood Gardens.
Views of Brandywine area engravings
The Brandywine Valley is a rural region of Southeast Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware celebrated for its historical ties to Revolutionary-era America. This collection contains two b&w engraved prints of depictions of the Brandywine area.
William Lescaze and The Rise of Modern Design in America
exhibition poster
William Lescaze and The Rise of Modern Design in Americaexhibition poster
William Lescaze (1896-1969) was a Swiss-born American architect. He is best known for introducing the International Style of architecture to the United States. This is a poster for the exhibition William Lescaze and the Rise of Modern Design in America
at the National Academy of Design in New York.
Wilmington, Delaware area historic images
Wilmington is the largest city in Delaware located on the Christiana and Brandywine Rivers. This collection consists of three reproduction photographs of diverse subjects: an A5A steam locomotive #1167 of Reading Railroad crossing the road at Greenville, Delaware; a unoccupied trolley car in Wilmington, Delaware, originally built by the Peoples Railway Company in 1904; a postcard illustration of the Delaware Trust Building, Wilmington, Delaware.
Women fishing Illustrations
Angling is a method of fishing by means of using an angle or fish hook. The hook itself can be dressed with lures or bait to attract the fish. F. Earl Christy (1883-1961) was an illustrator whose early works glorified the society college girl. After the college girl craze ran its course, he painted more mature men and women, movie stars, and political figures in his romantically idealized style. These three items show women with fishing poles. One of the postcard illustration's artwork is by F. Earl Christy.
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- Portraits 8
- Ephemera 5
- Postcards 5
- Exhibitions 4
- Railroads 4
- Advertisements 3
- Aerial photographs 3
- Diaries 3
- Packaging -- Design 3
- Recreation 3
- Sample books 3
- Architects 2
- Cabinet photographs 2
- Commercial art 2
- Dwellings 2
- Elsmere (Del.) 2
- Exhibition buildings 2
- Historic sites 2
- Maps 2
- Merchants 2
- Printing industry 2
- Railroads -- Rolling stock 2
- Social history 2
- Street-railroads 2
- Theaters 2
- Aeronautics 1
- Agricultural exhibitions 1
- Airplanes 1
- Amateur films 1
- Amusement parks 1
- Anthracite coal industry 1
- Bank buildings 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Biplanes 1
- Black people -- laborers 1
- Brandywine Creek (Pa. and Del.) 1
- Brandywine Springs (Faulkland, Del. : Amusement park) 1
- Brickmaking machinery 1
- Campaign literature 1
- Cartes de visite 1
- Chemical industry 1
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Commerce 1
- Company towns 1
- Correspondence 1
- Cosmetics industry 1
- Curiosities and wonders 1
- Cyanotypes (photographic prints) 1
- Design drawings 1
- Du Pont family -- Homes and haunts 1
- Dupont Street (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Elections 1
- Financial statements 1
- Firebrick 1
- Fireworks 1
- Food industry and trade 1
- Furniture industry and trade 1
- Furniture making -- Equipment and supplies 1
- Gardens 1
- Graphic design (Typography) 1
- Greenville (Del.) 1
- Group portraits 1
- Hardware stores 1
- Historical geography 1
- Horse-drawn vehicles 1
- Hotels 1
- Hygiene products 1
- Ice industry 1
- Industrial buildings 1
- Industrial design 1
- International trade 1
- Iron industry and trade 1
- Labels 1
- Labor 1
- Labor unions 1
- Land surveys 1
- Leisure 1
- Lime 1
- Machine shops 1
- Machine-tools 1
- Machinists 1
- Marketing 1
- Matchcovers 1
- Menus 1
- Motion picture actors and actresses 1
- Narrow gauge railroads 1
- Nemours (France) 1
- New Castle County (Del.) 1
- Office workers 1
- Panoramic photographs 1
- Paper mills 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Planographic prints 1
- Polymers 1
- Polyphenyleneterephthalamide 1
- Posters 1
- Quarries and quarrying 1 + ∧ less
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