The Proclamation of Emancipation 1895 Size:18x24 The Barbers Edge Freeman Straight

The Barbers Edge Freeman Straight Razor Patent of 1873 reads as a study in restraint — the close

an astronomical lithograph in which Jupiter looms cathedral-vast above a diminished Earth and Mercury cowers like an acolyte

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

The Mink Paper Clip Patent of 1919 — Blueprint of the Humble Binding is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

it is Reconstruction-era America grinning at its own table

The Proclamation of Emancipation 1895 Size:18x24 The Barbers Edge Freeman StraightThe Proclamation of Emancipation 1895 belongs to the long memorial afterlife of Lincoln's order, a turn of the century commemorative lithograph that revisits the 1863 decree three decades on when the work of remembrance had become its own civic industry, and the document was already passing from law into legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,