- Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
The Opera House, a new and handsome building, is on Euclid avenue. There are, besides, an Academy of Music and the Globe Theatre and several minor theatres. The business portion of Euclid avenue extends from the Park to Erie street, beyond which it is lined with handsome residences, elegant cottages and superb villas, the grounds around each being more and more extensive as it approaches the country. It is one of the finest avenues in the world, and is not less than ten miles in length, embracing during its course several suburbs which a generation since were remote from the city, and are now considerably surprised to find themselves brought so near it. Euclid avenue crosses the other streets diagonally, and was evidently one of the original roads leading into the city before it attained its present dimensions. The majority of the streets are parallel with the lake front, which pursues a course from the northeast to the southwest. But Euclid avenue runs directly eastward for about three miles, to Doane's Corners, one of the historic spots in the neighborhood of Cleveland, and then turns to the northeast, following nearly parallel to the course of the lake. Prospect street runs parallel to Euclid avenue, and is only second to it in the beauty and elegance of its residences. St. Clair street is also a favorite suburban avenue, extending parallel to the lake, a little distance from it, far out into the country, and containing many handsome residences. - An Old-fashioned Train of Cars
An Old-fashioned Train of Cars - McCormick's Reaping Machine
- The First Type of McCormick Reaper
- The Old Way of Reaping
- Silhouettes of Grandfather and Grandmother
- Sextuple Perfecting Press
- Curved Stereotype Plate
- Franklin's Printing Press
- The Earliest Printers at Work
- A Monk Copying Manuscript Books
- Daniel Webster
- Charles Goodyear
- Kitchen in which Goodyear made his Experiments
- Natives Drying Rubber
- Tapping a Rubber Tree
- Birthplace of Charles Goodyear
- Edison in his Library
- Edison's First Phonograph
- Stock Indicator or 'Ticker'
- Wellesley College in 1886
- Alexander Graham Bell in 1900
- Part of a Telephone Exchange
- Bell's Telephone in March, 1876
- Dom Pedro II
- Elias Howe
- Howe's Improved Sewing Machine
- Cheapside in London
- Jonathan and his Uncle William in the One-horse Chaise
- Lock Stitch (above) and Chain Stitch (below)
- Faneuil Hall, Boston, Adjoining Quincy Market
- Howe's First Sewing Machine
- The Printing of Books
Now, Gutenberg "worked" his invention so energetically that, with the assistance of Faust, Schaeffer and others, an exceedingly efficient system of printing books was in practical operation as early as 1455. The types were of metal, and were cast from a matrix that had been stamped out by a steel punch, and could therefore be so accurately fashioned that the type had a beautiful sharpness and finish. In addition, certain mechanical apparatus of a simple kind (printing presses) were invented, whereby the type could be satisfactorily handled, and impressions could be taken from them with accuracy and quickness. News of the invention spread so rapidly that before the year 1500 printing presses were at work in every country of Europe. The first books printed were, of course, the works of the ancient authors, beginning with three editions of Donatus. These were multiplied in great numbers, and gave the first effective impulse to the spread of civilization from the Græco-Oriental countries, where it had been sleeping, to the hungry intellects of Europe. - The Trumpeter
THE TRUMPETER.” (SIR JOHN GILBERT, R.A.) (Drawn in pen and ink, from his picture in the Royal Academy, 1883.) [Size of drawing, 5½ by 4¾ in. Photo-zinc process.] - Young Chinese Divider
- . . . And cut leaf-shaped pieces
- A helping hand
- A necklace
- A whanging of wings that lifted . . . Up . . . Higher . . . Swifter
- At that same hour a basket was found in the garden
- 'Broooomp'
- By look and action he was a maiden
- Chinese man rowing divider
- Divider
- Doctor Chu Ping beamed upon him
- Dragon Divider
- Dragon
- Drinking Tea
- Floral Divider
- Flowers in the rain
- Han Hsin raised a bridge from island to mainland
- He kept his forehead tight-pressed to the floor
- He made a V of the bowstring
- He was a weighty elephant—amid the cabbages
- House under a tree
- How could she make beds when her hair needed burnishing
- 'I—I—I—am hungry,' stammered Han Hsin
- It was a well-plucked traveler who returned
- It was the howl of a wolf
- Kneeling before a tree