Science Art: $2 Silver Certificate, 1896 (Science Presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.)

Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, in the years before the Nanny-cam. What were they to do with those innocent children? Why, package and sell, of course. Again, and again, and again.

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