The Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York, 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Every brace and tension rod

Every brace and tension rod is drawn by a hand that knew the bay would test each rivet

The Hoffman Closure Patent Blueprint for the Champagne Seal reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

The Depp Apparatus Patent for the Extraction of Spirits comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

and the artifacts of American local memory

this is the founding document of the United States — the words Jefferson wrote

The Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York, 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Every brace and tension rodThe Most Rev. John Hughes, D. D., First Archbishop of New York, 1864. A clerical portrait of the Irish born prelate rendered in the year of his death, when his diocese had become the spiritual home of immigrant battalions and his pulpit a counterweight to draft riot fury. The engraver gives him the steady gaze of a man who answered Lincoln's correspondence and Rome's both. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American