Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era: A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progressBoyd, James P. (James Penny)
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Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era: A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
Boyd, James P. (James Penny)
Inventions; Progress
The Horse Fair. (Rosa Bonheur.) _Full page_ 597
At the Shrine of Venus. (Alma Tadema) 601
Napoleon I. (Canova) 603
Statue of Benjamin Franklin. (Boyle) 605
The Washington Monument, Fairmount Park 607
Photographic View of New York City 611
Surgical Operating Room, Howard Hospital, Philadelphia 617
Clinical Amphitheatre, Pennsylvania Hospital. _Full page_ 621
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia. From its “History.”
_Full page_ 624
X-Ray Photograph of a Compound Fracture of Forearm 628
X-Ray Picture of a Dislocated Elbow. _Full page_ 629
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes 637
Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, of Chicago. Courtesy of Dr. Davis 639
Starling Medical College and St. Francis Hospital, Columbus,
Ohio. Courtesy of Spahr & Glenn. _Full page_ 640
J. Marion Sims, A. B., M. D., New York. Courtesy of Wm. Wood
& Co. 641
The Old Stage Coach 644
First Train of Steam Cars 645
A Railway Train in Belgium 647
Loop in the Selkirks, showing Four Tracks. _Full page_ 649
Entrance to St. Gothard Tunnel, Switzerland 651
Railway Signals 652
An American Express Locomotive 653
An American Freight Locomotive 655
Exterior of Latest Sleeping Car 656
Interior of Pullman Sleeping Car 657
Railway Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls. From American Society
of Civil Engineers. _Full page_ 659
Hagerman Pass on Colorado Midland R. R. 661
View near Verrugas, on line of Oroya Railway, Peru 663
Independence Hall and Square—Winter Scene 666
Hon. Melville Fuller, Chief Justice U. S. Supreme Court 669
State, War, and Navy Building, Washington, D. C. 673
Portia and Bassanio. Trial Scene from “Merchant of Venice.”
_Full page_ 675
Paying their Dues. _Full page_ 679
First Building and Loan Association Advertisement 681
Row of $1400 Houses 686
Plan of $1400 Houses 687
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