Battle of Allatoona Pass 1887 sand island art and any space that draws

and any space that draws power from New York's particular history

The Smoldering Innovation — De Shons Cigarette Tip Patent 1929 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

and cast-iron facades stretch toward the horizon under the quiet authority of the wires overhead

The Gentlemans Secret Vice Patent Drawing for Concealed Pipe Cane captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233 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

Battle of Allatoona Pass 1887 sand island art and any space that drawsBattle of Allatoona Pass 1887 a commemorative engraving rendered more than two decades after the Georgia ridge ran red, when the Atlanta Campaign had cooled into Northern memory and veterans began demanding their hilltop fight be drawn with the dignity the bayonets had earned. 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