His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rigged in the careful linework

rigged in the careful linework of an era determined to remember its wooden navy before the steel one swallowed it whole

Sarony & Major

when engravers of the 1800s reworked his likeness into civic scripture — the jaw set

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

Just Arrived — a tableau heavy with steamer trunks and salt-stiff coats

His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rigged in the careful lineworkHis Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811. A signer of the Declaration rendered here in the full ceremony of his Bay State governorship the engraving styling him with that antique honorific 'Governour,' a year before his name would be welded forever to the redistricting cartoon that gave us the word gerrymander. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the