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Gerard S Petrone
The Lost Art of Baseball Humor (1860-1900) is an off-beat, annotated collection of humorous 19th Century baseball writing, embellished with period baseball illustrations and cartoons, plus little-known tidbits of historical…
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Gerard S. Petrone
Beautiful paper images from cigar boxes are showcased including the finest examples produced by the stone chromolithographic method between 1860 and 1910. The rich historical past that surrounds cigar manufacturing…
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Illustrations of antique tobacco artifacts, old photographs and contemporary advertising draw the reader through the growth of the tobacco industry and shown promotional ploys and gimmickry that evolved. This highly…
Those who will recall the Simpson trial as the legal extravaganza of its century might be surprised by striking parallels between it and the late-nineteenth century trial of the infamous…
