Daniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 large maine map Anti Prohibition 1888 — a

Anti Prohibition 1888 — a broadside from the wet side of the temperance wars

the kind of plate that once made Victorian astronomers feel they were reading God's own marginalia

when American men sought brotherhood in secret orders and stitched their virtues onto banners

military scenes

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Daniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 large maine map Anti Prohibition 1888 — aDaniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 the Massachusetts orator rendered at his diplomatic post, fresh from negotiating the Webster Ashburton Treaty, his jaw set with the same gravity that thundered through Senate chambers on questions of Union, tariff, and the slow burning quarrel over the West. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical