Showing posts with label 1885. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1885. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2020

Awaiting Developments (1885)

“Their First Experience—Awaiting Developments” drawn by Culmer Barnes. Harper’s Young People 6 (June 16, 1885): cover.

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Maternal Counsel (1885)

“Maternal Counsel,” drawn by W. Hamilton Gibson. Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 201.

Monday, December 9, 2019

A Game of Croquet without Rules (1885)

Peter Newell. “A Game of Croquet without Rules,” Harper’s Young People VI (June 30, 1885): 552.

Saturday, December 30, 2017

“That’s Every Bit of Wood There Is,” He Quavered (1885)

Ada Carleton Stoddard, “Snowed-In,” Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 200.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The Extended Arms and the Lady's Hand Grasping the Gentleman's Arm Are Not in Good Taste (1885)

Allen Dodsworth, Dancing and Its Relations to Education and Social Life: With a New Method of Instruction (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885), 275.

Sunday, December 27, 2015

The Suggestion That Primitive Eden Was at the Arctic Pole Seems at First Sight the Most Incredible of All Wild and Willful Paradoxes (1885)

William F. Warren, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; A Study of the Prehistoric World (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885), frontispiece.

Friday, September 25, 2015

If Young America Wants to Fly, He Don’t Care Who Pays for the Wings (1885)

John McDowell Leavitt, Kings of Capital and Knights of Labor (New York: C.V. Le Craw and Company, 1885), 172.

Friday, September 18, 2015

The Principles of Dispatching Trains by Orders (1885)

J.J. Turner, The Telegraph as Applied to Train Movement (Indianapolis: Hasselman-Journal Company Printers, 1885): frontispiece.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Friday, May 8, 2015

And like That Sounding Echo-Land This Graveyard Speaks to Me (1885)

J.R.S., “The Graveyard,” The Penny Post: An Illustrated Magazine for All Readers 35 ( September 1885): 275.



Sunday, January 25, 2015

The Whole Thing Just Went All to Pieces (1885)

Jimmy Brown, “A Sleigh Ride,” Harper's Young People 6 (October 27, 1885): 820.

Monday, June 16, 2014

She Had on Board a Large Number of Slaves When She Struck on the Rocks, and Also a Considerable Sum of Money in the Form of Silver Dollars (1885)

"Diving Beneath the Sea." The Growing World, or Progress of Civilization and the Wonders of Nature, Science, Literature and Art, Interspersed with a Useful and Entertaining Collection of Miscellany by the Best Authors of Our Day. (Philadelphia: W.M. Patterson and Company, 1885).

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The Peasant & the Mermaid (1885)

Fletcher S. Bassett. Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times. (Chicago: Belford Clarke and Company, 1885).


Thursday, May 1, 2014

The Molucca Siren (1885)

Fletcher S. Bassett. Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times. (Chicago: Belford Clarke and Company, 1885).

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Rarely Noticed Above Ground (1885)

W.F. Kirby. British Butterflies, Moths, and Beetles. (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Company, 1885).

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Must Feed (1885)

Lewis Baxter Monroe. Monroe's New Primer. (Philadelphia: E.H. Butler and Company, 1885).

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Lincoln & Sumner in Richmond (1885)

William Osborn Stoddard. Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life : Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work. (New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1885).

Sunday, November 18, 2012

I See a Man (1885)

I see a man.  I see a man. See me. See me.
Monroe's New Primer.  (Philadelphia: E.H. Butler and Company, 1885).