19th Century Gallery

First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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First Ferris wheel, Chicago Worlds Fair, 1893

Ferris wheel -250 feet in diameter, 36 cars - at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Thomas Nast cartoon about Boss Tweed corruption

"Who stole the people''s money? Twas him" cartoon about Tammany Hall scandal, 1871.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a Thomas Nast cartoon

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