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Seventeen from One. Automation on the farm is not a new idea. The big push came in the last 15 years, mothered by wartime necessity when the demands for food were huge and the shortage of manpower crippling. In the 1850s about 80% of the U.S. population lived on farms; today, the figure is only...
...Osage warrior lying in ambush is tense testimony to the wagoner's haunting knowledge that Indian eyes were always on him. But Bingham's masterpieces are the superbly drawn scenes of settled frontier life, electioneering, shooting competitions and riverboat life. Painted in the 1840s and 1850s, they already point to the days when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn will think of Injun Joe as an outcast, when the streets will be lined with whitewashed fences...
...limited number of each vane (an average of 20) will be reproduced for collectors at prices up to $500 (price in the 1850s: about $60). After that, Antique Hunter Halpert will donate the molds to a museum, and folk sculpture of weather vanes is likely to become as extinct as figurehead carving for clipper ships...
MISSISSIPPI RIVER shipping is nearing a flood stage. Barge shipments between Cairo, Ill. and St. Louis last year reached 15,942,000 tons, up 20% from 1952, and seven times the tonnage during steamboating's golden era (the 1850s and '60s). Current shipments (mostly oil, gas, coal and grain) are bigger than...
Tobacco has been a tradition in the Cullman family since Joe's German-born grandfather began making cigars in the 1850s. ("His cigars," Joe's grandmother used to say, "put more Union soldiers out of action than all the Confederate bullets.") His family had long owned Tobacco & Allied Stocks, with various tobacco investments, but never rolled its own cigarettes until the family trust bought Benson & Hedges...