James Irvin 1847 framed map art its lantern room and keeper's

its lantern room and keeper's quarters drawn with the patient precision of an engineer who knew the Patapsco fog as intimately as the mason who set the granite below

General Grant 1885 — a likeness rendered in the year the old commander laid down his pen at Mount McGregor

New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France

and the cantilevered bridges to Ontario were lithographed in saturated greens and impossible blues

This Mary Jane Art Nouveau portrait blends vintage botanical motifs with a warm

James Irvin 1847 framed map art its lantern room and keeper'sJames Irvin 1847 belongs to the Whig hour of Pennsylvania politics, when the ironmaster from Centre County stood for governor on a ticket of tariffs and internal improvement. The portrait carries the stiff dignity of a Mexican Warera campaign sheet, an industrialist's likeness pressed into service for a party already beginning to fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,