The Pageant of America and the Yale Quest for Pictorial History
Yale commemorates the centenary of its oldest art gallery with The Pageant of America, a 15 volume pictorial history. The search for authentic images spanned private collections, museums, and foreign archives, yielding over 10 000 authenticated pictures and cost over 382000 dollars. The project combined exacting scholarship with vivid illustration to present contemporary records of early America and its European influences.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Capitol
Washington
John Trumbull
Connecticut
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Yale University
Trumbull
America
Yale University Press
Yale
Asia
Europe
Carpini
Marco Polo
Columbus
Adam of Bremen
Vinland
Staats Bibliothek
Vienna
Jovius
Paulus Jovius
Nocera
Berlin
Friederich Riedesel
Burgoyne
Neuenhof Bei
Hisenach
Hessen
Freiherr
Albrecht Riedesel
William F. Harnden
Express
United States
Harnden
Stimson
The
Express Companies
American Railway Express Company
S. M. Baker
Chattanooga
Tenn
San Francisco
Harndens
New England
Western Newspaper Union
How About by ED HOWE on human care and greatness
A collection of reflections on carelessness during the depression and the California quake, praising prudence and frugality. The piece ranks American greatness, lists possible figures, and laments public drift, ending with personal anecdotes from Miami and a note about 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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California
Paris Nightlife Tragedy Seals Promising Chemist Fate
Paris tale follows Urbian Thuau, 25, a Sorbonne chemist, after a night out in Montparnasse. His wife, humiliated, shoots herself. he writes notes, then kills himself. Cabaret visits, intoxication, and a fatal sequence shock the couple’s families and Paris.
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Paris
Montparnasse
France
Latin Quarter
Rent Unpaid, He Chops Up House to Oust Tenant
Kernersville North Carolina landlord Elmer Snow swore warrants against Joe Montsinger and his son Glenn after tenants failed to pay rent. Snow said Montsingers ordered him and Mary Matthews to leave and then armed with axes chopped the front porch steps and other parts of the house.
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Kernersville
N.C
Elmer Snow
Joe Montsinger
Montsinger
Glenn
Montsingers
G. W. Carter
Snow
M Montsinger
Mary Matthews
Pleads Self-Defense in Hog Killing Acquittal at Pine Bluff
Garfield Burton was acquitted in Pine Bluff Ark after pleading self defense to killing a hog and taking its carcass. He testified he was chopping wood when the hog charged and he struck with an ax, the blow killing the animal. He later decided to use the meat since the hog was not marked.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Garfield Burton
Burton
Snake in overheated car shocks Alabama reader
Gerald Nolin, Dothan district agent for a Montgomery paper, found a four foot moccasin draped across his car’s motor after the cooling system overheated. The snake had become entangled in the fan belt and disconnected it. Nolin had no idea how the reptile got there.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gerald Nolin
Dothan
Nolan
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trans-Mississippi
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Peter Wilson
John A. Mather
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Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
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Miami
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