Old Times William H Taft 1908 Ravens_Artwork The Victoria Affair Midtown Secrets

The Victoria Affair Midtown Secrets in Art Deco Splendor unfolds like a scene clipped from a 1929 society column — chrome setbacks and zigzag spandrels rising above a Midtown sidewalk where the Hotel Victoria's revolving doors keep the rumors moving

The Barbers Shroud Patent Drawing of 1897 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

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1839 — a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench

and El Tovar perched at the rim like a Swiss chalet stranded in red rock country

Old Times William H Taft 1908 Ravens_Artwork The Victoria Affair Midtown SecretsOld Times William H Taft 1908 a campaign era portrait of the Ohio jurist turned Republican standard bearer, fixed in the year he inherited Roosevelt's blessing and the presidency along with it. The likeness carries the heavy composure of a man more comfortable on the bench than the stump. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical