The Spirit of the Union 1876 Cincy_Bengals The Baron Cigarette Patent of

The Baron Cigarette Patent of 188 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

The Gentlemans Vice Patent Drawing for Hands Free Cigar Apparatus captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

The plate hums with the same Promethean nerve that gave us the Chrysler's spire and the dirigible mast atop the Empire State

The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections

A commemorative lithograph of Liberty newly arrived in her harbor

The Spirit of the Union 1876 Cincy_Bengals The Baron Cigarette Patent ofThe Spirit of the Union 1876 a Centennial chromolithograph that gathered the republic's hundred year ledger into allegory, printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers