James Buchanan 1849 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Coopers Secret Patent Blueprint

The Coopers Secret Patent Blueprint of the Forgotten Barrel Shield comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

when the Atlanta Campaign had cooled into Northern memory and veterans began demanding their hilltop fight be drawn with the dignity the bayonets had earned

when the country was still negotiating what to make of the man who had accepted Lee's sword and then stumbled through two terms in the White House

its lantern room hovering above the shoals like a held breath

Stephen Girard 1832 — a portrait of the Philadelphia financier in the year of his bequest's settling

James Buchanan 1849 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Coopers Secret Patent BlueprintJames Buchanan 1849 a portrait of the Pennsylvania statesman in his Polk administration prime, rendered when he was Secretary of State and the country was busy swallowing the spoils of the Mexican War. The face here is not yet the one history would blame; it is the diplomat's, still confident in compromise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional