Family Picture for the Million, 1888 framed sleigh and anyone who appreciates the

and anyone who appreciates the craft of the close shave

The Ganim Apparatus Patent for Oriental Smoke & Vapor 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

19th Century — a New Year's broadside in the old newsboy tradition

The Cathedral of American Pastime Polo Grounds Relic Print conjures the bathtub-shaped bleachers of Coogan's Bluff

convinced our pale companion was a world that had already finished dying

Family Picture for the Million, 1888 framed sleigh and anyone who appreciates theFamily Picture for the Million, 1888 a parlor chromolithograph pitched at the new middle class, its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the