American heritage : [electronic resource] August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.
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- Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
- Museums -- United States -- History
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915
- Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 1870-1937
- Sepulchral monuments -- Pictorial works
- School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
- Architecture -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works
- Anesthesia -- History
- Ewald, Johann von, 1744-1813
- Cartercar automobile -- Pictorial works
"Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
"Whoso would learn wisdom, let him enter here!": a pictorial tour of Charles Willson Peale's museum -- Unearthing the mastodon: Peale's greatest triumph / Charles Coleman Sellers -- A heritage preserved: Peter, Paul, and the museum business / T.H. Watkins -- Frederick Winslow Taylor: the messiah of time and motion / Spencer Klaw -- American characters: Richmond Pearson Hobson / Richard F. Snow -- Calm dwellings: the brief, sentimental age of the rural cemetery / David Stannard -- "A gentlemen's fight" / John Egerton -- Buildings for sale: unexpected beauty from a city archive / Mary Cable --"Gentlemen, this is no humbug": the discovery of surgical anesthesia / John J. Pullen -- A Hessian visits the victors: 1783 / Johann Ewald -- Cartercar: the adventures of supercar -- Barnum & Brady's biggest: two of P.T. Barnum's most stupendous attractions / photographed by Mathew Brady -- Readers' album: assault with battery.
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