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- Illustration, "Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in the Winter of 1879" - When Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in spring of 1876 the laboratory building contained his entire operation -- a handful of collaborators, office, library, and machine shop as well as laboratory. As the scale of Edison's investigations grew, so did the complex. This illustration depicts Menlo Park in winter 1879, when Edison first demonstrated his experimental lighting system.
- 1879
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Illustration, "Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in the Winter of 1879"
When Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in spring of 1876 the laboratory building contained his entire operation -- a handful of collaborators, office, library, and machine shop as well as laboratory. As the scale of Edison's investigations grew, so did the complex. This illustration depicts Menlo Park in winter 1879, when Edison first demonstrated his experimental lighting system.
- Buster Brown and His Dog Tige and Their Troubles, 1904 - Richard Outcault, a pioneer in the strip style of comic illustration, introduced Buster Brown in 1902. The mischievous 12-year-old from a well-heeled Manhattan family captivated readers. Americans loved following Buster Brown's shenanigans (interspersed with commentary from his pet dog, Tige). This full-color, large-format book is a compilation of Buster Brown comic strips that originally ran in the <em>New York Herald</em> in 1903 and 1904.
- 1904
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Buster Brown and His Dog Tige and Their Troubles, 1904
Richard Outcault, a pioneer in the strip style of comic illustration, introduced Buster Brown in 1902. The mischievous 12-year-old from a well-heeled Manhattan family captivated readers. Americans loved following Buster Brown's shenanigans (interspersed with commentary from his pet dog, Tige). This full-color, large-format book is a compilation of Buster Brown comic strips that originally ran in the New York Herald in 1903 and 1904.