America 1671 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A late-century commemorative portrait of

A late-century commemorative portrait of the man who mustered Iowa's regiments into the Union ranks — issued thirty years after the guns fell silent

it reads as both roster and elegy

The Bottlers Apparatus — Patent Drawing of Industrial Alchemy reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

and Franklin bent over the parchment

words spoken in March 1865 to a country still bleeding

America 1671 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A late-century commemorative portrait ofAmerica 1671 a cartographic glance backward to a continent still half rumor, when the colonies were a thin Atlantic fringe and the interior belonged to other nations entirely. The date itself is the artifact's argument: America as a word older than its republic, drawn before it knew what it would become. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional