America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum stars and stripes arranged less

stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page

Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View From the Park looks south across Central Park's tree line as the young skyline shoulders upward — a Gilded Age tableau in which the Plaza's chimneys and the first towers of Fifth Avenue announce a city rehearsing its own ambition

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

Battle of Chickamauga

the year of Buena Vista

America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum stars and stripes arranged lessAmerica's Famous Jockeys 1955 gathers the small, sinewy men who made the American turf silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals, each rider catalogued like a thoroughbred in his own right. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz &