Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map 1863 — a wartime portrait

1863 — a wartime portrait of the Ohio congressman turned soldier

A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid-career

The Cutting Edge Loewenthals Parallel Shears Patent is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway

Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map 1863 — a wartime portraitHistorical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898. A fraternal chromolithograph thick with regalia and allegory chains, swords, and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late century lodge culture, when American men sought brotherhood in secret orders and stitched their virtues onto banners. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the