Martin Van Buren President of the United States 1839 Size:18x24 It is the Victorian mind

It is the Victorian mind at its most reverent — measuring the firmament with calipers

The Muller Ice Machine Patent Industrial Alchemy of the Gilded Age belongs to the great American tradition of patenting the very small problem — a domestic object whose engineering far exceeded its kitchen-table use

bracketed by the years that bore Antietam

The Vintners Mechanical Servant — Patent Archive Print reads like a love letter to the still — gauges

It is the Victorian astronomer's quiet confession: that every map of the earth is

Martin Van Buren President of the United States 1839 Size:18x24 It is the Victorian mindMartin Van Buren President of the United States 1839. A campaign era portrait of the Little Magician at the apex of his single term, rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840. 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