American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barron Typewriter Patent —

The Barron Typewriter Patent — Blueprint of the Written Word is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Every brace and tension rod is drawn by a hand that knew the bay would test each rivet

rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time

printed in the war's final spring

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

American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barron Typewriter Patent —American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century assembles the engraved faces of a republic still arguing with itself statesmen, generals, and presidents arrayed in the steel point manner of the parlor album, each visage rendered with the solemn finish that the nineteenth century reserved for men it wished to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National