Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States 1861 Kalamazoo_antique The Burkhart Beer Cooler Patent

The Burkhart Beer Cooler Patent a Study in Victorian Temperance and Temptation is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

humid light the postcard printers loved to chase

Bourbon — warm walnut tone with ornate relief

The Bertelli Apparatus Patent for Effervescence reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States 1861 Kalamazoo_antique The Burkhart Beer Cooler PatentAbraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States 1861 a portrait fixed at the precise hinge of the republic, the prairie lawyer raised to the executive chair just as Sumter's guns were being loaded. The gaze is already weighted with what is coming. 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 lithographic