Garret D. Wall, Senator From New Jersey 1835-1841 old_tacoma The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace

The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace Patent — Instruments of the Morning Ritual 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

where blue-coated men posed against the Tennessee River's sweep — the camera catching soldiers who would soon march into the smoke at Missionary Ridge

New Mexico arrives in adobe ochre and turquoise sky — pueblo missions baked into the mesa

struck and re-struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth

before the Crédit Mobilier scandal would tarnish the smiling Hoosier's name

Garret D. Wall, Senator From New Jersey 1835-1841 old_tacoma The Kampfe Brothers Razor BraceGarret D. Wall, Senator From New Jersey 1835 1841. A Jacksonian Democrat's tenure rendered in the formal hand reserved for the upper chamber, his six years on the Senate floor coinciding with the bank wars, the gag rule, and the slow gathering of storms the next generation would have to answer for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional