General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Barbers Contraption — Patent

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

brewery tasting rooms

The portrait carries the weariness of a soldier turned statesman turned author

and the moral fevers of a republic still arguing with itself

General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Barbers Contraption — PatentGeneral James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847. A campaign portrait from the twilight of the Whig hour, when Irvin carried the party's banner against Francis Shunk in a Pennsylvania already restless with the Mexican War's spoils and the slavery question simmering beneath every stump speech. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,