Thaddeus Stevens 1838 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Equal parts cartography

Equal parts cartography

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry 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

A postcard sent from the moment Manhattan stopped being a city and started behaving like a constellation

The City of Saint Louis Welcomes the National Democratic Convention 1888

Union Square at Fading Light

Thaddeus Stevens 1838 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Equal parts cartographyThaddeus Stevens 1838. A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid career, years before his radical ascendancy in Congress, when his quarrel with the slaveholding republic was still being waged in statehouse chambers and the cutting prose of antebellum debate. 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