1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting
rendered long after his pistol duel at Weehawken
and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel
The Barbers Implement 1892 Thinning Shears Patent belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard
the swan boats drift through the Public Garden
The Great Bartholdi Statue, Liberty Enlightening the World, 1885 Size:18x24 1794 — the founding charterThe Great Bartholdi Statue, Liberty Enlightening the World, 1885. A commemorative lithograph issued the year her copper skin arrived in New York harbor in 214 crates, Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch aloft before she was ever assembled a French gift to an American republic still stitching itself back together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,