Winfield Scott, Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States, 1852 reynolds astronomy The Brewers Apparatus — Patent

The Brewers Apparatus — Patent Drawing of Industrial Fermentation captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

A campaign portrait of the Indiana senator and grandson of Tippecanoe

Hemingway's shaded verandas

the Wonder Wheel turning against a linen sky

the Mount Vernon hearth offered up as ancestral balm two years after Appomattox

Winfield Scott, Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States, 1852 reynolds astronomy The Brewers Apparatus — PatentWinfield Scott, Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States, 1852. The general of Veracruz rendered as candidate a campaign portrait floated by a Whig party already cracking along its sectional seams, hero worship pressed into lithograph just months before the ticket's collapse and the party's own dissolution. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National