The Innkeepers Invention — Patent Drawing of the Lidded Stein is the kind of drawing a brewmaster pinned above his desk — a small mechanical solution to a very specific problem of yeast
Fate of the Rebel Flag 1861 — a Union allegorical lithograph published in the war's first year
Washington arrives in mist and evergreen — Rainier shouldering through cloud
The Koken Chair Patent a Study in the Architecture of Grooming 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
over whom citizenship was for
Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 sacramento_print The Innkeepers Invention — PatentDeclaration of Independence, July 4th 1776 the founding instrument rendered in engraver's hand, every signature copied with the reverence due men who pledged their lives and fortunes to a sentence whose ending none could yet read. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz &