We are working our way through the boxes of stuff that was too good to throw outduring the last 115 years.
They were a useful and entertaining communication tool; before people had phones to tell them the date
What a great illustration and spunky lettering. No celebration of industry was complete without the smokestacks belching inky plumes of coal smoke.
From 1916; This is Admiral Farragut's flagship, still in service until 1926 and it had a doozy of a life. It used a lot of rope! He took it up the Mississippi and the Confederates set it on fire. Later he used it to chase the Spanish out of the Phillipine Islands.
You can't miss when you put your product into the hand of good old open-source Santa.
The way to keep up to date
Playing at the Auditorium Theater. Would this be the "Top Gun" of 1917?