William H. Taft 19th Century NE_Patriots_Poster 23rd Street — a vintage

23rd Street — a vintage Manhattan tableau lingering at the crossroads where Broadway grazes the Flatiron's prow

the signatures

and the lantern-room geometry of a station that took ten years and several lives to raise

and cooling coils designed by men who understood that beer is mostly a problem of temperature

citizenship

William H. Taft 19th Century NE_Patriots_Poster 23rd Street — a vintageWilliam H. Taft 19th Century a portrait of the future president as a younger man, before the White House and the Chief Justiceship, when Taft was still climbing the Ohio bench and the Gilded Age machinery of Republican patronage was quietly shaping a career that would touch every branch of American government. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,