Browse Items (4 total)

These articles appeared consecutively in the December 1895 issue of Metropolitan magazine. "The New Woman: What She Is and What She Does," profiles a series of so-called "New Women" who have occupations including that of department-store…

This item is an advertisement for Hood’s Sarsaparilla pills which treat “all liver ills”, jaundice, sick headache, biliousness, sour stomach, and nausea. In the advertisements a woman, Amanda Paisley, tells in depth, of her grotesque experience with…

The "Waldorf Astoria, New York, Roof Garden" photomechanical print illustrates a unique feature of a luxury hotel in Manhattan in the early 1900s. The Waldorf Astoria was one of the first hotels to offer complete electricity, private bathrooms and…

This illustration, featured in the September 11, 1858 issue of Harper's Weekly, depicts a large gathering of people celebrating the establishment of the Atlantic Cable. Cyrus W. Field, creator of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, successfully laid down…