Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and lantern-room rib drawn by

and lantern-room rib drawn by a hand that understood hurricanes far better than it understood mercy

The Blodgett Mechanism — Patent Blueprint of the Electric Typewriter is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

and the long shadow of a name about to be rewritten

when Good Friday's gunshot at Ford's Theatre transfigured a wartime president into the republic's first secular saint

rigged in the careful linework of an era determined to remember its wooden navy before the steel one swallowed it whole

Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and lantern-room rib drawn byGeographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 a Jacksonian era reference engraving that flatters the young republic with columns of population figures, state admissions, and territorial boasts, the cartographer's confidence betraying a country measuring itself against its own appetite for expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the