James Madison 1911 spokane_old_map briefly sharing a wharf

briefly sharing a wharf

The Gentlemans Edge Adjustable Safety Razor Patent belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

A portrait of the immigrant radical in shoulder straps

The Petersen Apparatus Patent for the Extraction of Spirits reads like a love letter to the still — gauges

James Madison 1911 spokane_old_map briefly sharing a wharfJames Madison 1911 a commemorative portrait of the fourth president issued nearly a century after his second term, the Father of the Constitution rendered for an Edwardian America already busy mythologizing its founders into marble and ink. 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 &