Showing posts with label 1915. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1915. Show all posts

Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Friday, December 1, 2017

A Mood (1915)

“A Mood,”Kindergarten Review 25 (February 1915), frontispiece.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Beyond the Lions Stood the House Beautiful, With Walls of Gold Bright as the Sun Itself and Gates of Gleaming Pearl (1915)

Maud Linzey,  “The Lions in the Way,” Illustrated by Florence Liley Young, The Story-Teller (Boston: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Company, 1915), 117.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

“That Wasn’t Bad for the First Trip,” Said He, “See if You Can Do Better” (1915)

Ethel C. Brown, The Three Gays, Illustrated by Grace. G. Kelley (Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1915), 92.

Friday, October 30, 2015

Straight at the Man He Launched His One Hundred and Forty Pounds of Fury (1915)

Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Illustration by Philip R. Goodwin (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915), 20.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

As Though Startled by Her Cry, the Immense Creature Sank Out of Sight Again (1915)

Dewey Autin Cobb, "On the Edge of the Amazon," Illustration by Paul Bransom, St. Nicholas 42 (July 1915): 779.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Santa & the Snow Queen (1915)

J.D. Whitney. "Mrs. S. Claus's Predictament." St. Nicholas. 43 (December 1913).

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Mr. Dog and Mr. Bear Met Right at the Cottage Door (1915)

Mabel Fuller Blodgett. "The Strange Story of Mr. Dog and Mr. Bear. St. Nicholas. 43 (December 1915).

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Among the Little Folks of this World (1915)

Dan Beard. The Amercian Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles. (Philadelphia and London: J. Lippincot and Company, 1915).

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Now My Dears (1915)

Your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
Painting and Drawing Book with Tale of Peter Rabbit. (New York: Hurst and Company, `1915).

Sunday, February 17, 2013

You Can't Whip Me (1915)

Wayne Whipple. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln. (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1915). 

Friday, February 8, 2013

White House Pick-A-Back

Abraham Lincoln & Todd: He used to carry the boy pick-a-back.
Wayne Whipple. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln. (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1915). 

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Great Snow in 1717 (1915)

Seymour Dunbar. A History of Travel in America. showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experience and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent. With maps, colored plates, and other illustrations reproduced from early engravings, original contemporaneous drawings and broadsides. Vol 1. (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915).

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Submarine Escape Apparatus (1915)

Drager submarine escape apparus
George David Stillson. Report on Deep Diving Tests.  (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915).

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Taking Many Views (1915)

Ross began taking many views of the pitching, tossing schooner.
Laura Lee Hope. The Moving Picture Girls at Sea: or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real  (Cincinnati: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1915).

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Tame Vinegerones (1915)

Richard Griffin. The Dead Rabbit Riot A.D. 1857 and Other Poems. (New York: Richard Griffin, 1915).

Monday, April 2, 2012