The Presidents of the United States: A Souvenir of the Presidential Election and of the Columbian Exposition of 1892 framed scissors art rendered with the swagger of

rendered with the swagger of a man who carried San Juan Hill into the Oval Office and treated the presidency itself as a kind of expedition

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

The Alchemists Vessel Zwietusch Beer Filter Patent belongs to that quiet golden age of American distilling

The Gentlemans Guillotine 196 Cigar Cutter Patent 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

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The Presidents of the United States: A Souvenir of the Presidential Election and of the Columbian Exposition of 1892 framed scissors art rendered with the swagger ofThe Presidents of the United States: A Souvenir of the Presidential Election and of the Columbian Exposition of 1892 gathers the executive lineage into a single commemorative chromolithograph, issued for the year Chicago staged Columbus's fourth centenary and Cleveland unseated Harrison a republic taking inventory of itself beneath the white domes of the fairgrounds. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical