- Pittsburgh - Burning of the union depot
July 1877 - Part of the Great Railroad strike of 1877 Then they applied the torch to it, and the Union depot blazed up while the firemen looked on, afraid to interfere. It was a fearful spectacle. The Union depot was a large four-story building of brick and stone. It had a frontage on Liberty Street of about seventy feet and extended back about 200 feet. The lower floor was used as a waiting room, ticket offices and the company's offices. The upper floor was occupied by the Keystone Hotel Company, and was one of the best houses in t he city. The whole building was of modern style of architecture, and was considered one of the best arranged depots in the country. In the rear of the depot, and extending back 500 feet, were line of neat pine sheds covering different tracks to protect passengers from the weather. It was under these that the burning car was run. - Cutaway view of dwelling
Daily life of ordinary people was much different than that of the elite. As far as we know, the former continued to live as they had during the earlier part of the period. They lived in circular houses in small villages located near their gardens and buried their dead in simple graves with few goods. - The Horseshoe Fall from Goat Island
A more correct estimate of the cataract than either of the preceding is that of M. Charlevoix, sent to Madame Maintenon, in 1721. After referring to the inaccurate accounts of Hennepin and La Hontan, he says: "For my own part, after having examined it on all sides, where it could be viewed to the greatest advantage, I am inclined to think we cannot allow it [the height] less than one hundred and forty or fifty feet." As to its figure, "it is in the shape of a horseshoe, and it is about four hundred paces in circumference. It is divided in two exactly in the center by a very narrow island, half a quarter of a league long." In relation to the noise of the falling water, he says: "You can scarce hear it at M. de Joncaire's [Fort Schlosser], and what you hear in this place [Lewiston] may possibly be the whirlpools, caused by the rocks which fill up the bed of the river as far as this." - Cultivating the crops
The men and women had very different daily tasks. Women took care of the young children; planted, tended and harvested the crops; cooked the meals; and made the pottery, baskets, mats and clothing. Men’s work consisted of housebuilding, canoe-making, and clearing land for gardens, along with defense, hunting, woodcutting, and making the tools for these chores. The men also had primary responsibilities for ritual and political activities. - New York - Burning of the Provost Marshal's office
- Joel R. Robinson
The history of the navigation of the Rapids of Niagara may be appropriately concluded in this chapter, which is devoted to a notice of the remarkable man who began it, who had no rival and has left no successor in it—Joel R. Robinson. In the summer of 1838, while some extensive repairs were being made on the main bridge to Goat Island, a mechanic named Chapin fell from the lower side of it into the rapids, about ten rods from the Bath Island shore. The swift current bore him toward the first small island lying below the bridge. Knowing how to swim, he made a desperate and successful effort to reach it. It is hardly more than thirty feet square, and is covered with cedars and hemlocks. Saved from drowning, he seemed likely to fall a victim to starvation. All thoughts were then turned to Robinson, and not in vain. He launched his light red skiff from the foot of Bath Island, picked his way cautiously and skillfully through the rapids to the little island, took Chapin in and brought him safely to the shore, much to the relief of the spectators, who gave expression to their appreciation of Robinson's service by a moderate contribution. - Chicago - The fight at Turner Hall , arrival of U.S. Artillery
- New York - Rioters marching down the New York Central Railroad track at West Albany, July 24, 1877
- BAltimore - U.S. Artillery guarding the Camden Street Depot
- Fort Lafayette, New York Harbour
- Baltimore - The mob firing the Camden Street Station
- New York - Rioters tearing up rails at the bridge at Corning
- New York - Burning of the Second Avenue Armory
- Fort Hamilton, from whence United States troops were sent to aid in suppressing the Draft Riots of 1863
- New York - the construction gang repairing the tracks at Corning
- New York - the stairway defended by artillery
- New York - Rioters soaping the tracks at Hornellsville
- New York - Hanging and burning a negro in Clarkson Street
- Baltimore - attacking the soldiers at the armory
- Fishing
As Meso-Indian family `groups` traveled, they met other hunting `groups`, and sometimes camped together. These were important times for social and ceremonial activities. They probably smoked pipes together and shared information about good hunting, fishing, and plant collecting areas. - Baltimore - scene after the first volley by the Sixth Regiment
- New York - The rioters dragging Col. O'Brien's body through the street
- New York - the attack on the Tribune Building
- New York - The dead sergeant in 22nd Street
- New York - The riot in Lexington Avenue
- New York - Receiving and removing dead bodies at the morgue
- Corning, N.Y. - Second detachment , 23rd Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y. stopped by rioters
- Baltimore - carrying off the dead rioters
- New York City - BAttery B, N.G.S.N.Y., equipping for a move
- New York City - Battery B, N.G.S.N.y., waiting for orders
- Baltimore - A night skirmish at Eutaw Street
- New York - Serving chowder to the soldiers
- Newark. O. - An engineer lifted from his train
- Baltimore - Arrival of Gatling Guns at Camden Street Depot
- Baltimore - the mob assaulting a member of the sixth
- New York Hospital - Scene of the Doctors' Riot
- New York - the fight between rioters and militia
- New York - The Colored orphan asylum, 143rd Street. The former building destroyed during the draft riots of 1863
- Pittsburgh - Arrest of a rioter defended by the mob
- Corning - the construction gang righting overturned cars, under the protection of the militia
- Reading - Burning of the Lebanon Valley Bridge
- Pittsburgh - Rioters distributing stolen whisky
- Cardinal Wolsey in progress
- The fifteen joys of marriage
Illustration from 'LES QUINZE JOIES DE MARIAGE,' PARIS, TREPEREL, C. 1500. - Dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk receive the great seal from Wolsey
- Tokens sent to Wolsey by the King and Anne Boleyn
- Cardinal Wolsey
- Cromwell, Earl of Essex
- Fall of Table Rock
On the 25th of June, 1850, occurred the great downfall which reduced Table Rock to a narrow bench along the bank. The portion which fell was one immense solid rock two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and one hundred feet deep where it separated from the bank. The noise of the crash was heard like muffled thunder for miles around. Fortunately it fell at noonday, when but few people were out, and no lives were lost. The driver of an omnibus, who had taken off his horses for their midday feed, and was washing his vehicle, felt the preliminary cracking and escaped, the vehicle itself being plunged into the gulf below. - Charles Dickens Chair and desk
Charles Dickens Chair and desk - Burning of Chicago, the World's Greatest Conflagration
- State Street and Capitol, Albany, N. Y.
- Soldiers' Monument at Buffalo, N. Y
- University of Toronto, Canada
- Snow-shoes
The most ingenious work of the Indians was seen in the moccasin, the snow-shoe and the birch-bark canoe. The moccasin was a shoe made of buckskin, - durable, soft, pliant, noiseless. It was the best covering for a hunter's foot that human skill ever contrived. The snow-shoe was a light frame of wood, covered with a network of strings of hide, and having such a broad surface that the wearer could walk on snow in the pursuit of game. Without it the Indian might have starved in a severe winter, since only by its use could he run down the deer at that season. - State, War and Navy Departments, Washington, D. C.
- Boston, as Viewed from the Bay
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Ships the British, and the German, navy might have had
Ships the British, and the German, navy might have had! Designs by the Kaiser and other naval theorists. The first illustration on this page is a design for a battle-ship made by the Kaiser in 1893, to replace the old "Preussen," then out of date. The vessel was to carry four large barbettes and a huge umbrella-like fighting-top. Illustration No. 2 is an Immersible Ironclad, designed by a French engineer named Le Grand, in 1862. In action the vessel was to be partly submerged, so that only her three turrets and the top of the armoured glacis would be visible. No. 3 is Admiral Elliott's "Ram," of 1884. The ship was to carry a "crinoline" of stanchions along her water-line, practically a fixed torpedo-net. No. 4 is Thomas Cornish's Invulnerable Ironclad, of 1885. She was to have two separate parallel hulls under water; above she was of turtle-back shape. - Henry the Eighth