The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Edge Patent Blueprint

The Barbers Edge Patent Blueprint of the Gentlemans Blade belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

Florida Key West sits at the ragged southern tip of the Overseas Highway

The Capitol at Washington 1851 — a documentary engraving of the federal seat in the very year Congress authorized its great expansion

The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Edge Patent BlueprintThe Fast Mail 1875 a chromolithograph of locomotion at full throttle, smoke streaming sideways as the mail car barrels through the night, rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time. 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