Showing posts with label 1873. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1873. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Friday, March 20, 2015

You Will Find the Rest in Books, Any Books, All Books, and Some Day You Will Know How Difficult It Is to Find a Book with Nothing about a Dinner in It (1873)

Edwin John Ellis, Doda’s Birthday: The Faithful Record of All That Befel a Little Girl on a Long Eventful Day (London: Marcus Ward and Company, 1873), 158.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Strange Physician (1873)

“The Strange Physician,” Petersen’s Magazine 64 (August 1873): 155.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

I Saw a Loose Pearl Whose Size Equalled That of a Cocoa-Nut (1873)

Translated from the French of Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; Or, The Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner (Boston: G.M. Smith and Company, 1873), 161.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Cannon, Bell, & Bones Brought Up From the Wreck of the Hussar (1873)

Frank B. Goodrich and Edward Howland. Ocean's Story; Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries; A Graphic Description of Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries, and Inventions: And of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation from the Ark to the Iron Steamships, with an Account of Adventures Beneath the Sea: Diving, Dredging, Deep Sea Sounding, Latest Submarine Explorations, &c.&c., Prepared with Great Care. (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1873).

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Arming the Diver (1873)

Frank B. Goodrich and Edward Howland. Ocean's Story; Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries; A Graphic Description of Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries, and Inventions: And of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation from the Ark to the Iron Steamships, with an Account of Adventures Beneath the Sea: Diving, Dredging, Deep Sea Sounding, Latest Submarine Explorations, &c.&c., Prepared with Great Care. (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1873).

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

A Merry Christmas to You, Mr. Grouch (1915)

Edith Houghton Hooker. "The Spirit of Chistmas." St. Nicholas 43 (December 1915).

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Bringing in the Boar's Head (1873)

"Christmas Without Chrisendom." Harpers New Monthly Magazine. 46  (January 1873).

Monday, April 8, 2013

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013

I Remained in a Swoon (1873)

I remained in a swoon until the scene had ended.
Snowdrop; or, The Adventures of a White Rabbit Related by Himself. (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873).

Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Smoke Respirator (1873)

The smoke respirator "is one of the latest novelties for the use of firemen is employed by the fire department of London It a man to penetrate rooms and vaults when thick and deleterious gases render it impossible for any to venture with or without the extincteur."
Alfred Ely Beach, ed. The Science Record for 1873.  (New York: Munn and Company. 1873).

Monday, July 4, 2011

Brass Ring Work (1873)

Cassel's Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopedia of Domestic and Social Economy and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, Vol 3. (London: Cassel, Petter, & Galpin, 1873).  Capture and photoshop negative.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Crown-Wheel & Verge (1873)

H.L. Nelthropp, A Treatise on Watch Work Past and Present (London: E. & F. N. Spon., 1873).