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Photographs for Wood Engraving
All wood engravings have hitherto been first drawn by hand on wooden blocks for the...
Indian Convention
We learn with pleasure, that a convention of delegates from the Indian tribes in the...
PHILOSOPHY IN AN EGGSHELL
A correspondent recently asked you the reason why sugar strikes fire when two lumps are...
Napoleon Bonaparte at Breakfast
Preface: The following is an article is a snippet from the book Memoirs of the...

Historical Figures

Daniel Shays

was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer. Daniel was famous for being one of the...

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton