George Washington 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Kessler Extraction Device —

The Kessler Extraction Device — Patent Archive Print belongs to that quiet golden age of American distilling

that splendid wedge of Gilded Age commerce

his Anaconda Plan already drawn in the margins of a country splitting open

and again on the deck of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston

These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital

George Washington 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Kessler Extraction Device —George Washington 1893 a late century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the general's death, when the republic was busy canonizing its founders in lithograph and bronze. The portrait belongs to that Gilded Age impulse to varnish memory, rendering Washington less man than civic relic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical