William Buel Franklin, 19th Century music_gift_idea 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

The lithograph belongs to that anxious season when broadsides argued for a country still legally whole and visibly fracturing

drawn for a city still learning that industry's promise carried its own concussive bill

its plates of rating badges

reached back for the founder's likeness as both compass and alibi

William Buel Franklin, 19th Century music_gift_idea The Coopers Secret Patent BlueprintWilliam Buel Franklin, 19th Century a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg, his Left Grand Division swallowed by the slaughter below Marye's Heights. The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National