Franz Sigel 19th Century New York canvas art The Barbers Secret 1879 Folding

The Barbers Secret 1879 Folding Razor Patent captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

and the broad prairie main street where ranch country met railroad town under an open Dakota sky

The commemorative plate reads as ledger and echo

when a country still bleeding from Appomattox had to learn a second kind of grief

Garfield on the East Portico

Franz Sigel 19th Century New York canvas art The Barbers Secret 1879 FoldingFranz Sigel 19th Century the German born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic, his likeness circulated through immigrant regiments who marched under the rallying cry "I fights mit Sigel" toward the bloodied fields of Pea Ridge and New Market. 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