August Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 or a cigarette deserved an

or a cigarette deserved an apparatus designed and patented for its proper handling

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

photographed at the rank he earned through the smoke of Stones River and Liberty Gap

a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink

Every bracket and sash in the lantern-room geometry seems set down with the patience of someone who knew the sea would test it

August Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 or a cigarette deserved anAugust Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 the Prussian forty eighter turned Union officer, photographed at the rank he earned through the smoke of Stones River and Liberty Gap. A portrait of the immigrant radical in shoulder straps, fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional