United Mine Workers of America 1899 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Steel Giants of the Machine

Steel Giants of the Machine Age rises in a rendering of riveted ambition — towers shouldering through Manhattan haze in the years when skyscrapers were measured not just in stories but in the audacity of their setbacks

citizenship

The draftsman's hand lingers on every brace and cross-strut

the republic still young enough to believe its presidents could be gathered like a family

The Union Soldier's Discharge Certificate 1865 — printed in the closing months of the war

United Mine Workers of America 1899 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Steel Giants of the MachineUnited Mine Workers of America 1899. A union document from the coal dust end of the century, when the men who fed America's furnaces organized their grievances into something the operators could no longer ignore solidarity rendered in the formal type of a movement still finding its language. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical