Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Parker Wine Cooler Patent

The Parker Wine Cooler Patent of 1893 reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

summoning the founder's likeness as the country took stock of what it had survived

A thoughtful gift for whiskey collectors

and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets

Washington DC arrives in lithographed marble and linen sky — the Capitol dome

Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Parker Wine Cooler PatentTrain Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century a documentary photograph of the iron age caught in one of its routine catastrophes, the locomotive stopped mid route while bystanders gather at a respectful distance to watch the smoke rise. The crowd's stillness suggests the spectacle was, by then, almost familiar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National