Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 little rock art and period broadsides — the

and period broadsides — the press photographers

drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider

George Stoneman 19th Century — the Union cavalry commander rendered in the sober tonalities of a wartime portrait

The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted

The Mechanical Instructor — Patent Blueprint of the Bates Typing Tutor is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 little rock art and period broadsides — theBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 a fraternal chromolithograph from the year the rails themselves caught fire, when the Great Strike paralyzed half the country and the men who drove the iron horses pressed their case in oil soaked solidarity. The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia, locomotive, and the dignity of labor newly armed with a charter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American