Washington at Home 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame United Americans of the State

United Americans of the State of New York 1848 — a nativist banner from the year of revolutions abroad and Free Soil agitation at home

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

The Crown Cork Conspiracy Painters Revolutionary Seal 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

The Barbers Edge Patent Blueprint of the Gentlemans Blade belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Washington at Home 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame United Americans of the StateWashington at Home 1867 a postwar likeness of the first president rendered for a country still counting its dead, the Mount Vernon hearth offered up as ancestral balm two years after Appomattox. The image trades on memory: founder as refuge, the republic looking backward to steady itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical