Horace Greeley 1865 new mexico postcard or a cigarette deserved an

or a cigarette deserved an apparatus designed and patented for its proper handling

and the steady gaze of an officer who had outlived the War of 1812 to become its living monument

when the Union's survival was still an open question

The Sickenberger Device Patent for the Gentlemans Vice is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 — a Jacksonian-era reference engraving that flatters the young republic with columns of population figures

Horace Greeley 1865 new mexico postcard or a cigarette deserved anHorace Greeley 1865 the Tribune editor caught at the war's exhausted close, his rumpled collar and spectacled stare rendered in the engraver's careful hatchwork. The face of a man who had thundered "On to Richmond" in print and now had to reckon with what that ink had cost. 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