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The Koken Chair Patent a Study in Mechanical Comfort 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

and ventilator ball are drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman charting the small architecture standing between a keeper and the dark

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The Great Explosion in New York, February 4th, 1850 Orlando_MLS The Koken Chair Patent aThe Great Explosion in New York, February 4th, 1850 renders catastrophe with the cold eyed reportage of the penny press a documentary engraving of smoke, splintered timber, and gathered crowds, drawn for a city still learning that industry's promise carried its own concussive bill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and