Alford Q Collins 1897 framed cigar art and the firmament a willing

and the firmament a willing accomplice

distant orbs adrift at the cold edge of the solar family

United Mine Workers of America 1899

The Mink Paper Clip Patent of 1919 — Blueprint of the Humble Binding is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

January 1st 1863 — a commemorative lithograph of the New Year's Day quill stroke that turned a war for Union into a war for emancipation

Alford Q Collins 1897 framed cigar art and the firmament a willingAlford Q Collins 1897 a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age, the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record, the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier