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- Ford Motor Company Common Stock Certificate, 1919 -
- 1919
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Ford Motor Company Common Stock Certificate, 1919
- Glidden's "Winner" (Common Variation) Barbed Wire, Patented 1874 - Inventors received hundreds of patents for barbed wire during the late 1800s. Some innovators created strands of fencing with sharp metal points cut into the wire; others incorporated small wire spurs twisted and attached to the wire to create a painful barrier. Each inventor believed their variation made the best fencing to keep livestock out of crop fields or confine them to pastures.
- 1874
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Glidden's "Winner" (Common Variation) Barbed Wire, Patented 1874
Inventors received hundreds of patents for barbed wire during the late 1800s. Some innovators created strands of fencing with sharp metal points cut into the wire; others incorporated small wire spurs twisted and attached to the wire to create a painful barrier. Each inventor believed their variation made the best fencing to keep livestock out of crop fields or confine them to pastures.
- Food Slicer -
- Collections - Artifact
Food Slicer
- Food Slicer -
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Food Slicer
- Printing Plate with Image of a Common Buckboard -
- Collections - Artifact
Printing Plate with Image of a Common Buckboard
- May Day Civil Rights Demonstration on Boston Common, May 1, 1935 -
- May 01, 1935
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May Day Civil Rights Demonstration on Boston Common, May 1, 1935
- Lithograph, "Cervus Virginianus, Pennant. Common American Deer, Fawn," 1845 -
- 1845
- Collections - Artifact
Lithograph, "Cervus Virginianus, Pennant. Common American Deer, Fawn," 1845
- 1985 Honda SE-i Advertisement, "Ignite Your Common Senses" - The automobile is a paradox -- a practical tool that plays host to both human needs and fantasies. Like car consumers, automotive ads seem to land somewhere between fantasy and reality, emotions and rationality. Many ads incorporate apparent opposites: fantasy can sell practicality, and vice versa. Sometimes the car has disappeared completely -- an emotional appeal prompts us to complete the ad.
- December 01, 1984
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1985 Honda SE-i Advertisement, "Ignite Your Common Senses"
The automobile is a paradox -- a practical tool that plays host to both human needs and fantasies. Like car consumers, automotive ads seem to land somewhere between fantasy and reality, emotions and rationality. Many ads incorporate apparent opposites: fantasy can sell practicality, and vice versa. Sometimes the car has disappeared completely -- an emotional appeal prompts us to complete the ad.
- Wood Engraving, Steam Carriages for Common Roads, circa 1848 - British inventor Goldsworthy Gurney built a series of self-propelled steam carriages in the 1820s. Although successful technologically -- one of Gurney's carriages made the 100-mile trip from London to Bath at an average speed of 15 miles per hour -- the vehicles failed commercially. The growing British railroad network and pressure from horse-carriage interests forced Gurney out of business.
- circa 1848
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Wood Engraving, Steam Carriages for Common Roads, circa 1848
British inventor Goldsworthy Gurney built a series of self-propelled steam carriages in the 1820s. Although successful technologically -- one of Gurney's carriages made the 100-mile trip from London to Bath at an average speed of 15 miles per hour -- the vehicles failed commercially. The growing British railroad network and pressure from horse-carriage interests forced Gurney out of business.
- Tremont Street Mall, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1905 - This photograph shows Boston Common, the busy urban park, where it borders Tremont Street near Park Street. The Common was a place for transportation as well as recreation. The streets and sidewalks are filled with pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, and a subway entrance is visible at background center.
- circa 1905
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Tremont Street Mall, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1905
This photograph shows Boston Common, the busy urban park, where it borders Tremont Street near Park Street. The Common was a place for transportation as well as recreation. The streets and sidewalks are filled with pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, and a subway entrance is visible at background center.