Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Baron Cigarette Patent of

The Baron Cigarette Patent of 188 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Joel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 — a portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat-turned-cabinet-officer at the height of Van Buren's troubled administration

Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 — a campaign portrait from the year the Buffalo reformer broke a quarter-century of Republican rule

and the firmament a willing accomplice

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 — a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty-one days in office

Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Baron Cigarette Patent ofBattle of New Berne NC 1885 a commemorative rendering issued two decades after the guns fell silent, returning to Burnside's 1862 coastal campaign with the careful retrospection of a generation now building monuments to what it once survived. The North Carolina shoreline appears here as memory rather than maneuver. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,