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This bold and bright poster presents two different scenes of leisure made more widely available by the railway. The artist has selected a range of vivid colors, a choice made possible by the growing availability of lithographic printing. The poster…

This is a photograph that provides a view of the inside of the High Street Kensington Station at the time of its last phases of construction. A locomotive is shown to be situated on this terminal's railway track. This is one of the stations that had…

A book by 'demonologist' Francis Barrett. It details various occult practices, beliefs, and rituals related to demons, including different runes for summoning specific demons, artistic renderings of said demons, and what purpose they can serve. This…

This is an American patriotic song about the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II. It was written by Frank Loesser and published as sheet music in 1942. The song is based on stories of a military chaplain that…

The article details the plans which have went into the original planning of Central Park, or “the Greensward plan,” and the eventual execution of said plan.

This wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in New York City has quotations engraved into glass from soldiers sent to their families, from family members to soldiers, and from important public figures during the time.

Published in the June 26, 1935 edition of the newspaper The Listener, George Bernard Shaw's essay "Freedom" is surrounded by additional text. It is preceded by blurbs ranging from vacation advertisements to charity requests. A plea for donations to…

This relatively small leaflet is physically taped to Manhattan College's copy of The Listener in which Bernard Shaw wrote "Freedom". It is duct-taped against the side of the paper, and a larger cardboard cover was given to sandwich the two items.…

George Bernard Shaw's "League of Nations" is duct taped to a copy of The Listener newspaper, inside which he had contributed an article. It is taped along with another political leaflet, "Are We Heading For War?". It is fairly similar to the…

This portrait of Charlotte Brontë was completed in 1850 by English portraitist George Richmond. The portrait was engraved by J. C. Armytage for the first edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë and was widely reproduced thereafter.…