The National Platform of the Republican Party and Its Candidate for President U.S. Grant 1872 chicago worlds fair George Washington

George Washington

The Publicans Precision Patent Blueprint for the Perfect Pour is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

The swearing-in of James A

The Celestial Twins a Victorian Study of Binary Stars and Stellar Orbits traces the slow waltz of paired suns locked in mutual gravity — the kind of double-star choreography Herschel first charted when he realized the heavens were not still but threaded with orbits

The Dark Side Revealed Smith's Lunar Shadow Study is selenography at its most clandestine — Smith chasing the terminator across the lunar maria

The National Platform of the Republican Party and Its Candidate for President U.S. Grant 1872 chicago worlds fair George WashingtonThe National Platform of the Republican Party and Its Candidate for President U. S. Grant 1872 a campaign broadside for the general's reelection, printing the party's planks alongside the soldier president's likeness in the uneasy summer when Liberal Republicans had bolted and Reconstruction's promises were already fraying at the edges. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,