John M. Robinson, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century

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

Louis would not slip south

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

The Gentlemans Guillotine 196 Cigar Cutter Patent 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

1862 — the Illinois politician turned soldier

John M. Robinson, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Robert Montgomery Bird 19th CenturyJohn M. Robinson, 19th Century an engraved portrait of the Illinois senator whose Jacksonian loyalties carried him from the state bench to the floor of the U. S. Senate, his likeness rendered with the sober formality reserved for men who legislated the republic's restless westward push. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,