United States at One View 1854 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Sam L Southard Senator From

Sam L Southard Senator From New Jersey 1838 — a Senate-floor portrait of the New Jersey Whig at the height of his second turn in Washington

A handsome piece for cigar lounges

the Moon's hidden hemisphere coaxed into the lamplight of natural philosophy

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood

The Barbers Peculiar Shears Patent Drawing of Victorian Hair Cutting Device captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

United States at One View 1854 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Sam L Southard Senator FromUnited States at One View 1854 a continental panorama drawn on the eve of disunion, when statistics and statehood were arrayed in tidy columns as if Manifest Destiny could be tallied. Every territory and tonnage figure here belongs to a republic already arguing itself toward the brink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,