John Tyler Tenth President of the United States 1835-1856 Size:18x24 The Depp Apparatus Patent for

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

Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View From the Park looks south across Central Park's tree line as the young skyline shoulders upward — a Gilded Age tableau in which the Plaza's chimneys and the first towers of Fifth Avenue announce a city rehearsing its own ambition

Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States

a commemorative pamphlet-print dressed in the ornamented confidence of a republic eager to braid its own short chronicle into Columbus's longer myth

and the slow procession of wealth that once defined uptown Manhattan

John Tyler Tenth President of the United States 1835-1856 Size:18x24 The Depp Apparatus Patent forJohn Tyler Tenth President of the United States 1835 1856 a campaign era portrait of the Virginian who inherited the office on Harrison's death and spent his single term feuding with his own Whigs, annexing Texas, and proving how thin the seam between vice and presidency could be. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and