Portraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield 1901 framed patent art rendered here as if Thebes

rendered here as if Thebes had wandered into Olmsted's pastoral

The Birsfield Transmitter — Patent Drawing for the Candlestick Telephone Stand is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

The postcards trade in tobacco fields

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756 is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

Portraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield 1901 framed patent art rendered here as if ThebesPortraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield, 1901 a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents, assembled in the raw months after McKinley's shooting in Buffalo, when the republic counted its assassinations and found, with grim arithmetic, that it had now lost three. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and