Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
A popular survey of nineteenth-century invention and progress compiled by James Penny Boyd and issued in 1899 by A. J. Holman & Co. of Philadelphia for American household and subscription readers. The 365 plates are tonal halftones and reproduced engravings of suspension bridges, libraries, colleges, hospitals and tree-lined institutional grounds, printed in soft grays with captions set in small capitals along the plate edge \u2014 useful for muted architectural backdrops and period engineering views.
