Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 framed orbit print The Baron Cigarette Patent of

The Baron Cigarette Patent of 188 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

With a vintage aesthetic and easy-to-follow layout

where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering

Lynch sits among the dignified ranks of Black statesmen the post-war republic had elected and would soon abandon — a Mississippi congressman rendered in the careful portraiture of a country still arguing

In Loving Memory of Our Martyred President McKinley 1901 — a mourning chromolithograph issued in the stunned weeks after Buffalo

Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 framed orbit print The Baron Cigarette Patent ofDurand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824 1840 a specimen sheet from the firm whose burin discipline anchored the paper currency of a young republic, when every state bank issued its own promises and only the engraver's line stood between solvency and forgery. 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