The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756 is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw
The engraver renders him in the stern collar and steady gaze of a clergyman who counted Lincoln among his correspondents
Marys River spills into the Atlantic — the elevation traces a tapered shaft and lantern room that once guided cotton schooners past the Cumberland shoals before storm and abandonment erased it from the dunes
The Golden West 19th Century conjures the cartographer's romance of a continent still being inventoried — wagon-track and rail-line
Stonewall Jackson 1877 — a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Chancellorsky's woods claimed him
The Champions of the People's Right 1876 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756The Champions of the People's Right 1876 a centennial year campaign lithograph rallying behind the Democratic ticket of Tilden and Hendricks, printed in the bitter season of a contested election that would end with Reconstruction itself bargained away on the floor of Congress. 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