When looking at this cabinet at first I did not notice the hunting scene until I zoomed in. I could see hunters hunting deer. It looks more like a mass slaughtering for sport instead of survival. The deer look like they couldn’t even fight back, which is usually the case with deer in the woods. […]Read Post ›

The Otto Engine at first glance looks very complicated and more advanced for this period of time. It does not necessarily say “Otto” on the label but it does say it was made for Philadelphia and this type of engine was first seen at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 in Philadelphia, PA. I does not […]Read Post ›

In the Centennial Exposition of 1876 the German display in Machinery Hall was quite alarming. In Andrew Bonnell’s article “German Goods, Socialism, and the 1876 Philadelphia World’s fair” he explains that “Germany’s display in the machinery hall was dominated by Krupp’s “killing machines”” (pp. 209). That is exactly what this huge cannon was. It was […]Read Post ›