Isaiah Thomas Esq 1898 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and reflux columns rendered in

and reflux columns rendered in the careful hand of a draftsman who understood that whiskey is built

For Governor Elliot Danforth 1898 a campaign portrait from the New York gubernatorial contest

Joel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 — a portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat-turned-cabinet-officer at the height of Van Buren's troubled administration

rendered here as documentary engraving

Puget Sound ferries trailing wakes past timbered shorelines

Isaiah Thomas Esq 1898 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and reflux columns rendered inIsaiah Thomas Esq 1898 a late century engraved portrait of the Revolutionary era printer and patriot, rendered for an age busy enshrining its founders in steel plate dignity. The likeness arrives a full century after Thomas's own presses thundered, an act of Gilded Age remembrance dressed as biography. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional