Old John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 Size:24x36 William Buel Franklin

William Buel Franklin

The Koken Chair Patent a Study in the Architecture of Grooming 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

fixed in ink while the ledgers of the dead were still being tallied

arranged like a jury of intentions

Chain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device — a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence

Old John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 Size:24x36 William Buel FranklinOld John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 traces the abolitionist's incendiary path in panel after panel Pottawatomie to Harpers Ferry a documentary engraving that treats the man as both prophet and powder keg in the year the Union began to fracture in earnest. 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