Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 U-Boat_Poster The Publicans Apparatus — Patent

The Publicans Apparatus — Patent Drawing of the Victorian Beer Faucet captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

Abraham Lincoln 1894 belongs to the long memorial afterlife of the martyred president

Celestial Mechanics of the Wandering Gods traces the looping pilgrimages of the planets — those ancient wanderers the Greeks called planētes — across a Victorian plate where Mars

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood

Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 U-Boat_Poster The Publicans Apparatus — PatentDouglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 a documentary view of the wartime capital's converted wards, where the Douglas and Stanton hospitals took in the maimed harvest of Grant's Overland Campaign, ledger clean rooflines belying the surgeon's saw within. 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