Tea Leaves, 1936

Water for Chicago

From the Cyclopedia of Heating, Plumbing and Sanitation (1909) published by the American School of Correspondence in Chicago.

Menacing

In the 1950s, when magazines such as True Men Stories or Man’s Life needed a cover illustration about wild animals menacing manly men, their go-to artist was Wilbur Lee Hulsey. He went by “Wil Hulsey” and illustrated such stories as “Chewed to Bits by Giant Turtles,” “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” (a title Frank Zappa later lifted for an album), “The Island of Man-Eating Rats,” “Lizards from Hell,” “The River of Crawling Death” (snakes), “Flying Rodents Ripped My Flesh” (flying squirrels this time), “Twisted Horns Tore My Guts” (antelope), “Spider Monkeys Tore Me Apart,” “Strangled by a Giant Gorilla” and, with an alligator in the starring role, “Give Me Back My Arm.”

Newport, 1902

Photograph by Gertrude Kasebier

Splendid

From the Cyclopedia of Heating, Plumbing and Sanitation (1909) published by the American School of Correspondence in Chicago.

Water Tank

From the Cyclopedia of Heating, Plumbing and Sanitation (1909) published by the American School of Correspondence in Chicago.

Love

Cover art from Hug Machine (2014) by Scott Campbell

Step into History

With thanks to D.F. McNelly, who praises the hotel’s choice of eight fabulous soups a day and the preservation of the 1880s building’s historic decor.

Errors

“When machine gunners have to locate their positions and lay out lines of fire after dark, errors usually will creep in.”

— Walter Campbell Short in The Employment of Machine Guns (1922)