Washington's Farewell Address 1856 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and nodal crossings plotted with

and nodal crossings plotted with the grave precision of a Victorian selenographer convinced the heavens turned on hidden gears

A civic broadside from the summer Cleveland was renominated on the banks of the Mississippi — Saint Louis dressed in bunting and self-regard

These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital

The Publicans Preservation Draft Beer Apparatus Patent Print is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

and tackle were married to mast and spar

Washington's Farewell Address 1856 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and nodal crossings plotted withWashington's Farewell Address 1856 an antebellum reprinting of the first president's parting counsel against faction and foreign entanglement, issued precisely as the Union began to fray. The choice to set those warnings in type again, on the eve of secession, reads less like reverence than like a republic arguing with itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National