issued in the order's golden-age decade when lodges multiplied across Gilded Age cities and brotherhood itself had become a kind of civic religion
A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents
The Publicans Vessel — Patent Drawing of the American Beer Mug is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps
May 1862 — a field document from the long shadow of Shiloh
Sand Island Light Station Blueprint 8th District Sentinel reads like a draftsman's quiet reckoning with the Gulf — a slender brick tower rising from a shoal off Mobile Bay
Death of Washington Dec 14 AD 1799 framed industrial issued in the order's golden-ageDeath of Washington, Dec 14 AD 1799 a mourning lithograph fixing the hour the General slipped from Mount Vernon into myth, the bedside grief of a young republic learning, for the first time, how to bury its founders. 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,