The Long Toll Apparatus — Patent Blueprint of the Coin Operated Telephone is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall
312897 Electric Fencing Target for Instructing the Blind Rs La Rocca 1964 — La Rocca's filing renders fencing through circuitry and sound
A late-century synoptic table that flattens a century of American incident into columns and crosshatched epochs — the Gilded Age's faith that the republic's story could be tabulated
Butler's inventor's diagram cradles the rider's foot in pure Gilded Age horsemanship
Navy's survey for an isthmian canal route through the Panamanian jungle
Fort Federal Hill Baltimore Md 1862 Size:36x24 The Long Toll Apparatus —Fort Federal Hill Baltimore Md 1862 looks down from the earthworks Ben Butler threw up to keep a secessionist city under Union guns tents in disciplined rows, cannon trained on the harbor, Baltimore held in place by the same artillery that watched its rooftops. 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