American heritage
Subtitle: August/Sept. 1979, vol. 30, no. 5.
Publisher: American Heritage Pub.
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Museums; Sepulchral monuments; Cartercar automobile; School integration; Architecture; Anesthesia; Pictorial works; History
Notes: "Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
Table of contents: title: "Whoso would learn wisdom, let him enter here!": a pictorial tour of Charles Willson Peale's museum; title: Unearthing the mastodon: Peale's greatest triumph / Charles Coleman Sellers; title: A heritage preserved: Peter, Paul, and the museum business / T.H. Watkins; title: Frederick Winslow Taylor: the messiah of time and motion / Spencer Klaw; title: American characters: Richmond Pearson Hobson / Richard F. Snow; title: Calm dwellings: the brief, sentimental age of the rural cemetery / David Stannard; title: "A gentlemen's fight" / John Egerton; title: Buildings for sale: unexpected beauty from a city archive / Mary Cable; title: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug": the discovery of surgical anesthesia / John J. Pullen; title: A Hessian visits the victors: 1783 / Johann Ewald; title: Cartercar: the adventures of supercar; title: Barnum & Brady's biggest: two of P.T. Barnum's most stupendous attractions / photographed by Mathew Brady; title: Readers' album: assault with battery.