Here is a higher-resolution copy of the image that heads this article, so you can answer burning questions like "is that a dog up there in the ceiling or what?".
Similar modern tale: Wesley Redhead came to Iowa City in its early days, having been a driver on the Erie Canal and a cabin boy on a Mississippi Steamboat.
Arrived with nothing (cheated of his money by gamblers on the train, substituted for counterfeit) he worked his way from printer's devil to Postmaster in the capitol of Des Moines (a thankless job back then), sold books from the lobby, became a bookseller, and at his peak sold $600 in books a day (a lot in the 1800's) at affordable prices.
Later the Coal King of Iowa during the Civil war he retired very rich, donated the land for the Iowa State Fairgrounds, donated his house and surrounds for a city park.
Ask yourself: are there any industries where commodity products are only sold with 'pomp' that could be stripped away to offer a more barebones accessible product?
in a way ChatGPT made AI accessible to the average person (who isn't a developer and doesn't know how to use an API)
https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/%7E/media/bl/global/dl%20ro...
Hooray for TinEye.