This miniature copperplate press with blankets and blanket-lifting pulleys is made of brass and mounted on a wooden base. It dates from the early 20th century. The press has a height of 9.5 inches and ...

This compact cylindrical handheld stepped drum calculating machine has gray metal sides and a black top and operating handle. Eleven slots along the side of the cylinder have plastic red and black ...

Measurements: overall (folded): 17 in x 11 1/2 in x 1/16 in; 43.18 cm x 29.21 cm x .1016 cm ...

This steel cabinet, which Phyllis Diller calls her Gag File, has fortyeight file drawers containing more than 50,000 3-by-5-inch index cards, each bearing a typewritten joke or gag that Diller used in ...

This machine has seven columns of ten plastic keys each; the bottom key is red and clears the column. It has a metal case painted speckled black. A repeat/error lever ...

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The Constitution did not require white and African American children to attend the same schools. Social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom; the states should be left free to ...

African Americans turned to the courts to help protect their constitutional rights. But the courts challenged earlier civil rights legislation and handed down a series of decisions that permitted ...

One of the earliest forms of photography, the daguerreotype was invented in 1839. Interest in the new medium spread rapidly across the United States, and daguerreians anxiously waited for a viable ...

A desire to remove employees from Manhattan’s teeming humanity, particularly organized labor and “the machinations of the anarchists and socialists,” inspired William to purchase 400 acres across the ...

This brass kettle was manufactured during the mid-1800s. Kettles were sought-after cookware pieces that had a high value due to their usability and versatility. The Hudson Bay Company traded metal ...

Cookie Monster is a live-hand puppet originally performed by Frank Oz and currently performed by David Rudman. In a live-hand puppet, like Cookie Monster, one of the performer’s hands is in the puppet ...