where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin
City of New Orleans Vintage Art from Bella Frye
half-priest — and the patent office was where their faith was filed
The Tailors Instrument Melander Shears Patent is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
Walker of the Texan Rangers Who Fell at the Battle of Huamantla on the 9th of October 1847 — a memorial lithograph for Samuel Walker
The Bridge Memorial, St. Louis, MO, Saturday July 4th 1874 Size:18x24 where the boys who flungThe Bridge Memorial, St. Louis, MO, Saturday July 4th 1874 commemorates the dedication of Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox. 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