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Geronimo Meigs monorail Peabody Circus Freaks Ice Wagon

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Item number:370237788988
Item location:London, United Kingdom
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Last updated on 16:45:07 BST, 29 Aug, 2009 View all revisions
Item specifics - Magazine Back Issues
Issue Type: Bi-MonthlySubject: American History
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A Vintage American Heritage Magazine from over 40 years ago

Hardback with illustrated boards. No dustjacket. Illustrated profusely with b&w and colour plates. 112 pages.
 
 
Front cover depicts a colour engraving entitled Soldier's Return.
 
Frontispiece [b&w plate depicting some of the most notorious Native American chiefs. In this image, Geronimo is wearing a top hat pretending to drive a car.]
 
The destablising of the old South Fork dam [16 pages inc. colour reproductions and b&w plates and engravings]
 
The Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in History [8 pages inc. b&w plates and line drawings]
 
On the Right Track, 1887: Joe Vincent Meigs and his elevated railway/monorail [2 pages inc. b&w plates]
 
Our First Foreign War: America goes to war in Mexico. The story of one foot soldier, as he told it in letters to his family back home in Massachusetts [25 pages inc. colour and b&w plates and engravings]
 
The First Great Cheerful Giver: the story of George Peabody [8 pages inc. colour and b&w plates and b&w engravings]
 
The Fat man and his friends: The fat man in question is circus performer David Navarro and his friends were Isaac Sprague, Adah Briggs, Eugene Faralto, Myrtle Corbin, Eli Bowen, The Freak Chinese Dwarf, Lucia Zarate, Sarah Sutherland, Charles Price and The Lucasies who were all albinos, Edwin Smith, Mrs. Myers, the Aztec Children, The Wild Men of Borneo and Fiji Jim and his wife, Annie. [7 pages of b&w plates/16 studio portraits]
 
End of a Manhunt: The capture and death of John Wilkes Booth [5 pages of b&w and colour plates]
 
Gerhardt Liebmann paintings parody Thomas Cole [6 pages of colour and b&w plates]
 
The Horrid and Unnatural Rebellion of Daniel Shays [9 pages inc. b&w plates]
 
The Ice Wagon Cometh [2 pages inc. colour engravings]
 
Geronimo! [12 pages inc. b&w plates and engraving]
 
Ulysses S. Grant [2 pages inc. full page colour reproduction]
 
 
This book is in GOOD condition.
 
Delivery weight: Approx. 320g

 

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