William Penn's Treaty With the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania boulderer_poster The Plumed Knight of Maine

The Plumed Knight of Maine rendered in campaign-portrait gravitas

rendered with the studied gravity reserved for men who had already begun composing their own legend

courthouse square

in waxed lapels and steady gaze

The Publicans Contraption — Patent Drawing for Beer Dispensing Apparatus is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

William Penn's Treaty With the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania boulderer_poster The Plumed Knight of MaineWilliam Penn's Treaty With the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania renders the elm at Shackamaxon as Quaker mythology Penn in plain coat extending wampum to the Lenape, an unsigned compact later invoked as the founding handshake of a province built, briefly, on the fiction of mutual consent. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional