American History Illustrated February 1974

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American History Illustrated February 1974

Cover: Eli Whitney by Samuel F.B. Morse

Back Cover: Ginning Cotton, 1864

In This historical issue:

Eli Whitney: Embattled Inventor
by Brother C Edward
The man who originated the Cotton Gin had not counted on pirate copying,
endless lawsuits and bureaucratic red tape.
Old engraving shows a Whitney Cotton Gin in operation 1793
Yale College in 1793, the year after Whitney's graduation
Whitney's Original Cotton Gin, estimated it did the work of a thousand persons
The Machine that revolutionezed the economy of the South
Slaves carrying the picked cotton to the gin Apr 1854
A typical gin-house on a Southern plantation
Slaves of both sexes picked cotton on the great plantation
The Eli Whitney Gun Factory at Mill Rock (now Whitneyville) Ct
Sec of War Maj John Armstrong, Whitney's friend in the arms contract controversy
An ad for Whitney's Gun Factory during t5he civil war period
Eli Whitney signarure

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "King of Pianists"
by Brian McGinty
His enchanted blend of "Ebony, Ivory and Stardust"
Showman Phineas T Barnum, Gottschaulk turned doen his offer to arrange
the musician's first concert tour
The cathedral and the old Place d'Armes in New Orleans
Victor Hugo, early admirer of Gottschaulk from a photo made abt 1850
Title page of an early Gottschaulk composition
Gottschaulk, "Prince of Piano-forte"
Young Queen Isabella expelled Gottschaulk from Spain
Gottschaulk on 1862 cover of Vanity Fair magazine
Matthew Brady's photo of Gottschaulk durung his triumphal American tour
Sigismund Thalberg, European musical giant
Marble bust of Gottschaulk in New Orleans Public Library
Reception of the Brooklyn Art Association at the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn in Gottschaulk's Day

In Search of "The "African"
by Alex Haley
No man has confronted the origins of black America more tangibly than this black writer
Alex Haley
"The father was the new master, Tom Lea"
Alex Haley as a child and some of his relatives"The Palmer Homestead Henning Tn
At5 home of grandparents, Henning Tn
"There were old men called griots...living archives"
Haley listens at Kebba Kanga Fofana, the Juffer village griot, relating history of the Kinta clan
Newsckipping of 1767 relating landing of Haley's great-great-great-great grandfather

Brother Jonathan Vs John Bull: A Cartoon Portfolio
How "The Southern Commissioner" tried to mould Public Opinion in England 27 Jul 1861

Phrenology's Golden Years
by Ekizabeth Shafer
Heads of chalk, inscribed with mystic numbers, disfigure every mantle-piece
As the Phrenologist sees our heads, American Phrenological Journal 1848
George Combe, phrenology's evangelist
Orson Fowler, commercializer of Phrenology
Phrenological maps of the brain areas charts
Famous converts to Phrenology: Walt Whitman, Rev Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, Horace Mann
Interior of Fowler and Well's phrenological museum in NY
The Fowler office in NY from 1854-1865
Profiles used to illustrate "organs"
Phrenological Examinations by Professor Bumps, B.D.  (poking fun at phrenology)

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