Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Thirty-four hours of mortar fire

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

The Victoria Affair Midtown Secrets in Art Deco Splendor unfolds like a scene clipped from a 1929 society column — chrome setbacks and zigzag spandrels rising above a Midtown sidewalk where the Hotel Victoria's revolving doors keep the rumors moving

issued in the centennial year when the Republic was busy reconciling itself to its quarrelsome founders

Blue Spruce Motel Spokane Washington arrives in neon-lit promise along the highway's edge — tidy cabins ringed by namesake evergreens

frozen on cheap cardstock and given away with a winter coat

Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Thirty-four hours of mortar fireBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,