George Washington 19th Century 2 skateboarder A commemorative engraving marking the

A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year

The Barbers Edge Freeman Straight Razor Patent of 1873 reads as a study in restraint — the close

where the Midwest learned to introduce itself by mail

Sincerely Yours

when aviation and Manhattan's vertical ambition seemed cut from the same alloy

George Washington 19th Century 2 skateboarder A commemorative engraving marking theGeorge Washington 19th Century 2 belongs to the long afterlife of the first president a 19th century engraver's reverent rendering, where the founder's likeness has already passed from man into civic icon, his features softened by half a century of national mythmaking. 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