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An edition of American heritage
(1979)
American heritage
August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.
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This edition was published in 1979 by American Heritage Pub. in New York.
Written in English
— 112 pages
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American heritage
First published in 1979
Subjects
Museums, Sepulchral monuments, Cartercar automobile, School integration, Architecture, Anesthesia, Pictorial works, HistoryPeople
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), Richmond Pearson Hobson (1870-1937), Johann von Ewald (1744-1813)American heritage
August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.
This edition was published in 1979 by American Heritage Pub. in New York.
Table of Contents
| "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. |
Edition Notes
"Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
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