19th Century Gallery

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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General Lee and General Jackson before Chancellorsville, US Civil War

Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson conferring before the battle of Chancellorsville, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Cylinder printing press, 1800s

Hoe printing press, showing type locked on the bed and overlays fixed on the cylinder; ink rollers on far right, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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