Abraham Lincoln 1920 Victoria_BC_map Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood

The Bauer Bottling Apparatus — Patent Archive Print belongs to the great age of American brewing

with bunting and oratory

Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View From the Park looks south across Central Park's tree line as the young skyline shoulders upward — a Gilded Age tableau in which the Plaza's chimneys and the first towers of Fifth Avenue announce a city rehearsing its own ambition

and seat for the first-order Fresnel is rendered with the precision of men who knew that a single misaligned prism could doom a Nantucket schooner

Abraham Lincoln 1920 Victoria_BC_map Robert Montgomery Bird 19th CenturyAbraham Lincoln, 1920. Half a century past Ford's Theatre, the martyred president had hardened into bronze and reverent line work this 1920 likeness belongs to the long aftermath, when Lincoln was less a man than the country's preferred way of remembering itself. 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 lithographic