Showing posts with label 1896. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1896. Show all posts

Sunday, February 7, 2016

How Many Dances May I Put My Name Against? (1895)

Nella Stuart, “A School Girl’s Romance,” The English Illustrated Magazine 13 (May 1895): 167.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

How the Slide Was Spoiled (1896)

“How the Slide Was Spoiled,” Illustrated by David Ericson, St. Nicholas 23 (February 1896): 344.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

The Engines Now Stood up to Their Throttles in Snow (1896)

R. Pitcher Woodward, Trains That Met in a Blizzard: A Composite Romance, Being a Chronicle of an Extraordinary Adventure of a Party of Twelve Men and One Woman in the Great American Blizzard March 12, 1888, Illustration by J. Carter Beard (New York: Salmagundi Publishing Company, 1896), frontispiece.

Friday, July 10, 2015

In General There Is a Feeling of Great Security in the Water (1896)

Emily Nunn Whitman, “The Zoölogical Station at Naples, The Century  32 ( August 1886):793.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

He Sent the Gentle Stranger Hurtling through the Air (1896)

W.W. Jacobs, “A Black Affair,” Illustrated by W.O. Bowman, The Idler 9 (April 1896): 410.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Cat Is, Is (1896)

The New Vertical Script Primer (New York: Potter and Putnam, 1896), 4.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Alas for Poor Bertie! He Was to Meet with Disappointment on That Very Day (1869)

Sophia Tandy, Bertie’s Birthday Present, or Patience Rewarded (London: Religious Tract Society, 1869), frontispiece.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

I Made a Fire, and by Boiling Snow Made My Kettle (1896)

John MacDougall,  Saddle, Sled and Snowshoe: Pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the Sixties, Illustrations by J.E. Laughlin (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1896), frontispiece.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The New Invention Was Soon Taken Up in America (1896)

Walter Jerrold, The Triumphs of the Printing Press (London: S.W. Patridge and Company, 1896), cover.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Caxton Showing the First Proof Sheet to the Abbot of Westminster (1896)

Walter Jerrold, The Triumphs of the Printing Press (London: S.W. Patridge and Company, 1896), image preceding title page.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Cheese, Ham, and Flour Mites (1896)

F.H. Chittenden. Household Insects of the United States: With a Chapter on Insects Affecting Dry Vegetable Foods. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896).

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Basile the Jester (1896)

J.E. Muddock. Basile the Jester: A Romance of the Days of Mary Queen of Scotts. Illustration by Stanley L. Wood. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1896).

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Escape Through a Smout (1896)

Returning to the orginal field.
H.A. Macphearson, et. al. The Hare. (London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1896).

Monday, September 17, 2012

Hydraulic Suction Dredge (1896)

Charles Shadduck Hill. The Chicago Main Drainage Channel: A description of the machinery used and methods of work adopted in excavating the 28-mile drainage canal from Chicago to Lockport, Ill.  (New York: The Engineering News Publishing Company, 1986).

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Monday, August 13, 2012

Suitable for Rink Skating (1896)

Suitable for Rink Skating
Norcliffe G. Thompson and F. Laura Cannan. Hand-in-Hand Figure-Skating. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1986).