SUBJECT SIGNIFICANCE — SELLING CHIROPRACTIC TO AMERICA.  An appealing example of mid-twentieth-century chiropractic advertising, combining anatomical explanation, cautionary anecdotes, humor, and direct-response marketing to promote spinal adjustment as the solution to sciatica and sacroiliac pain. The local Akron chiropractor's stamp preserves evidence of how nationally produced professional literature was distributed.....

PHOTOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE: ABBOTT AT THE CLOSE OF A LONG CAREER.  The exhibition was mounted while Berenice Abbott was still living and celebrated the breadth of a career extending from her Paris portraits of the 1920s through her landmark documentation of New York and later experiments in scientific photography. Of particular.....

Glasgow: , Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1955. MARITIME SIGNIFICANCE: SHIPS, MEN, AND THE NORTHERN WHALE FISHERY. Lubbock was a prolific historian of sailing ships and maritime commerce, known particularly for histories built around ships, voyages, logbooks, and the working lives of seamen. The Arctic Whalers applies that documentary approach to.....

New York: Platt & Munk Company, Inc., 1939. ILLUSTRATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: LANSING CAMPBELL AND AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK ART. Lansing Campbell was among the best-known American illustrators of the early twentieth century, producing artwork for children's books, magazines, calendars, and advertising. His illustrations for the Uncle Wiggily books helped define the visual identity.....

New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1878. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: THE AGE OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION.  Published during the height of Victorian interest in African exploration, this volume documents one of the nineteenth century's defining geographical achievements—the exploration of the Great Lakes region and the continuing search for the source of the.....

Chicago: Poor Richard Press (477), 1985. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: THE AMERICAN PRIVATE PRESS TRADITION.  During the late twentieth century, numerous American private presses continued the traditions established by earlier fine press printers, producing small publications intended for fellow printers, collectors, and enthusiasts of the graphic arts. These modest productions often emphasized.....

London: T. Cadell, 1830 & 1834. Full Leather Hardcovers. LITERARY SIGNIFICANCE: ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND THE GRAND TOUR. Samuel Rogers occupies an important place in English Romantic literature not only for his poetry but also for his influence upon the literary society of nineteenth-century Britain. A successful banker whose wealth afforded.....

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: FOUNDATION OF MODERN BIG-GAME FISHING. Charles Frederick Holder ranks among the most influential figures in American sporting history. Best remembered as the founder of the Tuna Club of Avalon in 1898, he helped establish the.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: ZEISS AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF PRECISION OPTICS. During the early twentieth century, Carl Zeiss of Jena stood at the forefront of optical engineering. Its astronomical instruments, microscopes, binoculars, and camera lenses established standards adopted by observatories, universities, scientific expeditions, and advanced amateur astronomers worldwide.SEEING FARTHER WITH ZEISS.This catalogue.....

CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: THE END OF AN ERA.  Released in 1991, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country brought the adventures of the original Star Trek crew to a fitting cinematic conclusion. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, the film reunited William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George.....

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1917. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: PRESERVING NEW YORK'S MOST FAMOUS COLONIAL HOUSE. Published during the Colonial Revival movement, The Jumel Mansion represents one of the earliest comprehensive documentary histories devoted to one of New York City's most significant surviving eighteenth-century buildings.Constructed before.....

Rochester, New York: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, 1923. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: FROM MAGIC LANTERNS TO MODERN VISUAL EDUCATION. The Balopticon occupies an important place in the history of visual education. During the first decades of the twentieth century, schools, universities, museums, churches, and public lecturers increasingly relied upon projected images to.....

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS THEATRE. Clay M. Greene wrote Nazareth for Santa Clara College's Golden Jubilee celebration in 1901. The production proved so successful that it was revived in 1907, attracting large audiences and establishing itself as one of the most ambitious Passion Plays presented in the American West during the.....