Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney Frame Style:Bourbon Frame World's Columbian Exposition 1893 —

World's Columbian Exposition 1893 — the White City's temple to Edison and Westinghouse

A regatta lithograph from the heyday of competitive sculling

You Can Never Go Wrong With a Black Frame

Bombardment and Capture of Fort Hindman

The Muller Ice Machine Patent Industrial Alchemy of the Gilded Age belongs to the great American tradition of patenting the very small problem — a domestic object whose engineering far exceeded its kitchen-table use

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney Frame Style:Bourbon Frame World's Columbian Exposition 1893 —Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical