Presidential Inauguration 1881 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and survivals

and survivals

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The Gentlemans Edge Adjustable Safety Razor 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

hand-cranked grist mills

it's a daily reminder of what 1776 set in motion

Presidential Inauguration 1881 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and survivalsPresidential Inauguration 1881. The swearing in of James A. Garfield on the East Portico, rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals a republic still binding its post war wounds, dressing them in marble, sashes, and the orderly choreography of constitutional succession. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional