Excerpt from Illinois State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1858 and 1859 We have many Agents, also, at the East, besides, are in communication with thousa

A look at the changing design of 19th-century American farmhouses, collected from a wide range of agricultural periodicals of the time.

This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extens