Illustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Apache Trail switchbacks

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when the Republic

The Gentlemans Ritual — Stelton Shaving Brush Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

The lithograph belongs to that quieter chapter of remembrance

found in that gesture an inheritance worth claiming

Illustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Apache Trail switchbacksIllustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm renders the body politic as host to a parasite, the Gilded Age's bossism and graft drawn out as a literal worm coiling through the republic's gut satire with the diagnostic confidence of a medical engraving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,