Hancock's Charge
when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory
The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon
The Barbers Machine Patent Blueprint of the Electric Clipper reads as a study in restraint — the close
schisms over slavery
Camp of Reynolds Battery, Stewart's Place, Baltimore, MD, 1862 Vintage Siam map Hancock's ChargeCamp of Reynolds Battery, Stewart's Place, Baltimore, MD, 1862 a documentary photograph of artillerymen bivouacked on the edge of a divided city, where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was held in place by Union guns. Reynolds' Battery rests between drills, the encampment laid out with the patient geometry of men waiting to be ordered south. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the