The Mechanical Instructor — Patent Blueprint of the Bates Typing Tutor is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall
where the lecturer's pointer doubled as a pulpit and the firmament answered in geometry
Oregon Portland arrives in lithographed views of the Willamette's bridges stitching east bank to west
The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer Tap Patent is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps
and harbor views where Lady Liberty greets every ship as if she'd been waiting all morning
Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Mechanical Instructor — PatentStonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 a martial portrait fixed barely a month after Manassas, when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional