Alford Q Collins 1897 framed cigar art distant orbs adrift at the

distant orbs adrift at the cold edge of the solar family

The word Late does the heavy lifting here

its postcards trading longhorn dust for the gleam of Stearman biplanes

January 1st 1863 — a commemorative lithograph of the New Year's Day quill stroke that turned a war for Union into a war for emancipation

United Mine Workers of America 1899

Alford Q Collins 1897 framed cigar art distant orbs adrift at theAlford Q Collins 1897 a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age, the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record, the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting. 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