basement bars
where the workingman's mutual-benefit society dressed its insurance contracts in the borrowed regalia of virtue
The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
rendered long after his pistol duel at Weehawken
gathering the great faces of a hundred years into one tableau where Webster might lock eyes with Lincoln and Clay shares his margin with Grant
William H. Seward, Secretary of State, 19th Century Size:24x36 basement barsWilliam H. Seward, Secretary of State, 19th Century. The portrait of Lincoln's indispensable man the New Yorker who once expected the presidency for himself and instead negotiated the Union's diplomacy through war, kept Britain at bay, and lived to purchase Alaska from a tsar. 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