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 widower president's niece-by-marriage rendered as White House hostess
A group portrait from the bruised years following Appomattox
or gifting someone with a love for art and history
A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence
Washington the Patriot the Statesman and the Warrior 1846 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Edge Patent BlueprintWashington the Patriot, the Statesman, and the Warrior, 1846 a triptych lithograph issued nearly half a century after the General's death, when an expansionist republic, mid quarrel with Mexico, reached back for the founder's likeness as both compass and alibi. 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