39342 is a snapshot of an industry that prized precision over poetry — the apparatus of bonded warehouses
The building reads less as architecture here than as argument: a republic insisting
The Gillette Razor Patent of 194 Blueprint of the Modern Morning Ritual comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual
Grand Banquet Given by the Citizens of Cincinnati to the Visiting Merchants — a commemorative engraving of long tables
McCulloch (1893) A late-century lithograph rendering of the Missouri bloodletting where Nathaniel Lyon fell and McCulloch's Confederates held the field — the war's first general killed in action
Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century Aztec_Stadium_Poster 39342 is a snapshot ofDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,