Nadai hartford wall art 1894 — a commemorative portrait

1894 — a commemorative portrait of the Livingstone College founder and orator

The Iron Crossing at Blackwells Island — a study of the Queensboro's lattice spans vaulting over the East River toward the asylum-shadowed strip once known for almshouses and madhouses

when local printers were busy enshrining the names of farm boys turned veterans

Emancipation Proclamation — Lincoln's executive stroke of January 1863

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry 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

Nadai hartford wall art 1894 — a commemorative portraitNadai survives as a whisper from the deadball era a tobacco card bearing a surname so obscure it reads almost like a misprint, the kind of figure who passed through the rosters of the early 1900s leaving little behind but the lithographed trace of his face on a cigarette insert. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from the great American tobacco