WHEN MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY DIED a few days short of Christmas 1976, a crucial piece had failed in the workings of Chicago’s fabled political machine.
ANIMALS APPEAR in a wide variety of situations and motifs on fiscal paper. Livestock and other ruminants typically serve to illustrate agricultural bounty or evoke pastoral settings.
WHEN JOSEPH D.
Flandreau (pronounced "Flan-droo"), South Dakota is a small city on the eastern edge of the state, about fifty miles north of Sioux Falls, the state’s largest metropolitan area.
This 1897 check from the Cogswell Polytechnical College of San Francisco honored its founding benefactor with a three-quarter medallion portrait of Henry D.
In June of the year 2000, notice appeared of a curious advertising note in the pages of Fun Mo
A MAN SAUNTERING down some urban sidewalk in early 20th century America might have been handed this currency-like handbill by a tout loitering outside a theater.
It was in early January 2015 that my father’s older sister, Orpha Ann Gatch, passed away in Terrace Park, Ohio at the age of 95.
In an earlier era when the United States economy was oriented more towards industry rather than services, different parts of the country were known for specializing in the production of certain goods, reputations that faded when that production
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