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or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

ceremonial swords

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

The Copeland Cocktail Apparatus 1916 Patent Archive belongs to the great pre-Prohibition cocktail era

City of New York From Jersey City 1849 Toilet_Canvas_Art or the kind of libraryCity of New York From Jersey City 1849. A panoramic lithograph drawn across the Hudson's working water, masts and steeples crowding the skyline of a port city already swelling toward empire the harbor still antebellum, still innocent of the rupture a dozen years out. 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