Daniel Webster 1852 Kalamazoo_antique New York NYC arrives as

New York NYC arrives as a skyline in miniature — linen postcards of the Flatiron's prow

when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade

An ecclesiastical portrait of the Black American clergyman who carried his miter to Port-au-Prince

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 bookends a presidency by its terrible arithmetic — the year of Sumter to the year of Ford's Theatre

The Hoffman Closure Patent Blueprint for the Champagne Seal reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

Daniel Webster 1852 Kalamazoo_antique New York NYC arrives asDaniel Webster 1852 a portrait from the final year of the Massachusetts orator's life, when the great voice of the Senate had spent itself defending the Compromise of 1850 and the Union it could not, in the end, save. 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 & Allison,