Battle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico
his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and
The Barbers Instrument Patent Tools of Precise Vanity comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual
Chain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device — a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence
The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat Battle of Molino del ReyBattle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 Union Gen. McClellan Commanding. A documentary engraving of the Peninsula Campaign's muddy reckoning, where Hancock's bayonets came down a Virginia slope and earned him, in McClellan's own dispatch, the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,