When John Paul Jones Came Home 1918 Aloha Stadium poster The Barbers Instrument Patent Blueprint

The Barbers Instrument Patent Blueprint of Precision and Steel 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

The Keepers Vigil Minots Ledge Lighthouse Blueprint reads like a study in defiance — granite blocks dovetailed against the Atlantic's worst temper off Cohasset

naval offices

Portrait of John Marshall Holding a Book After a Painting by Henry Inman

and the artifacts of American memory

When John Paul Jones Came Home 1918 Aloha Stadium poster The Barbers Instrument Patent BlueprintWhen John Paul Jones Came Home 1918 a press photograph of the Revolution's drowned admiral repatriated at last, his bones carried ashore as the republic that outlived him sent its own sons into the trenches of France. The Continental Navy and the AEF, briefly sharing a wharf. 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