George Washington 19th Century 1 Size:24x36 The Kazanjian Apparatus Patent Blueprint

The Kazanjian Apparatus Patent Blueprint for the Modern Vanity comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

his Left Grand Division swallowed by the slaughter below Marye's Heights

1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting

The Barbers Mechanical Hand Patent Blueprint of the Cochran Shearing Clipper 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

rendering the General-President as a brother of the lodge as much as a father of the republic

George Washington 19th Century 1 Size:24x36 The Kazanjian Apparatus Patent BlueprintGeorge Washington 19th Century 1 belongs to the long afterlife of the first president, when engravers of the 1800s reworked his likeness into civic scripture the jaw set, the gaze middle distance, a founder transmuted by the burin into national memory. 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