Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Atlantic_City_NJ A Senate portrait of the

A Senate portrait of the Conservative Democrat turned Whig

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Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi

A commemorative engraving of the obelisk completed at last after decades of stalled subscription and civil war

The Hauck Cocktail Shaker Patent Victorian Mixology Blueprint reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Atlantic_City_NJ A Senate portrait of theGreat Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 a chromolithograph broadside trumpeting the kind of late century exposition where electric light, ribboned livestock, and civic boosterism shared a single fairground. Its typography swells with the ornamented confidence of an America convinced that bigness itself was a virtue worth advertising. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National