Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 little rock art The Mechanical Instructor — Patent

The Mechanical Instructor — Patent Blueprint of the Bates Typing Tutor is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

and answered to a doubting century

regional broadsides

drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider

and period broadsides — the press photographers

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 little rock art The Mechanical Instructor — PatentBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 a fraternal chromolithograph from the year the rails themselves caught fire, when the Great Strike paralyzed half the country and the men who drove the iron horses pressed their case in oil soaked solidarity. The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia, locomotive, and the dignity of labor newly armed with a charter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American