The Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York, 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Hoffman Closure Patent Blueprint

The Hoffman Closure Patent Blueprint for the Champagne Seal reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

and Babe Ruth behind its famously soundproofed walls

The Depp Apparatus Patent for the Extraction of Spirits comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

and the artifacts of American local memory

The Tailors Instrument Melander Shears Patent 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 Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York, 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Hoffman Closure Patent BlueprintThe Most Rev. John Hughes, D. D., First Archbishop of New York, 1864. A clerical portrait of the Irish born prelate rendered in the year of his death, when his diocese had become the spiritual home of immigrant battalions and his pulpit a counterweight to draft riot fury. The engraver gives him the steady gaze of a man who answered Lincoln's correspondence and Rome's both. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American