An edition of American heritage (1979)

American heritage

August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.

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August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.

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American heritage: August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.
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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.

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"Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."

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112 p. :
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OL24769834M
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americanheritage1979newy
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