John Adams Dix 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame A commemorative portrait marking the

A commemorative portrait marking the elevation of the first American cardinal — Rome's red hat settled upon a Manhattan see

and Art Deco façades that the linen-era printers rendered with almost tropical exaggeration

this piece is as functional as it is decorative

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

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

John Adams Dix 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame A commemorative portrait marking theJohn Adams Dix 19th Century. The Union general and former Treasury Secretary rendered in the steady gravity of a 19th century engraving Dix, who telegraphed that any man hauling down the American flag should be shot on the spot, fixed here in the iron composure that line demanded. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and