Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art Ancient Order of United Workmen

Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 — a fraternal emblem from the age when laboring men insured one another against catastrophe through ritual and lodge dues

New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France

The Brewmasters Blueprint Zwietusch Beer Making Patent captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

its lantern-room geometry and spiraling stair drawn with the patience of someone who knew this light would outlast the men who tended it

and lantern-room sightline was drawn against the certainty that the shoals would try to take it back

Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art Ancient Order of United WorkmenBenjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847. A mid century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best, half philosopher, half founder, summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National