Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
A popular American survey of nineteenth-century progress in invention, industry, and society, compiled by James Penny Boyd and issued in Philadelphia by A. J. Holman & Co. in 1901 for general household readers. Its 368 plates are halftone and line reproductions of institutional buildings, machinery, city views and portraits, many printed as full-page landscape frontispieces; the soft grey tonal blocks and long horizontal facades suit backgrounds, period architectural silhouettes, and texture overlays.
