Washington at Home 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry 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

issued in the year American troops marched on Mexico and the republic's young pantheon of eleven men was beginning to feel the weight of expansion's promise and its bitter ledger

The Barbers Edge Patent Blueprint of the Gentlemans Blade belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

A portrait of the Ohio governor in the year he took the statehouse

Washington's Farewell Address 1856 — an antebellum reprinting of the first president's parting counsel against faction and foreign entanglement

Washington at Home 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Pacholder Cigarette Form PatentWashington at Home 1867 a postwar likeness of the first president rendered for a country still counting its dead, the Mount Vernon hearth offered up as ancestral balm two years after Appomattox. The image trades on memory: founder as refuge, the republic looking backward to steady itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical