Excerpt from Introduction to American History
Acknowledgments are due for the following pictures in the book: to The Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, for Model of a Phoenician Vessel to the Encyclopaedia Bri tannica Corporation, New York, for Xerxes Watching the Battle of Salamis and Phidias Building the Parthenon to the Mentor Association, New York, for Coronado on the March, Magellan Landing at the Philippines and Cartier at Montreal; and-to Mr. G A. Reid, Toronto.
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