Taylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its granite dome and Doric

its granite dome and Doric colonnade rising from Riverside Park like a Republic's answer to Napoleon's Invalides — a Gilded Age memorial keeping watch over a sleeping Morningside Heights

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The Ganim Apparatus Patent for Oriental Smoke & Vapor is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

The Manley Egg Boiler Patent a Victorian Kitchen Curiosity is the kind of curiosity that fills out a room — a small mechanical solution dignified by being drawn properly

Each map is set in a solid wood frame with ornate corners for an elegant touch

Taylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its granite dome and DoricTaylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 a campaign lithograph trumpeting Zachary Taylor's opening triumphs at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, where Manifest Destiny found its general and the Mexican War found its first laurels along a contested southern river. 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