Alford Q Collins 1897 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233

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

The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer Tap Patent is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

A linen-era city stitched together by irrigation canals and the slow

with Alcyone at their center

before the bullet — when McKinley was still the tariff man

Alford Q Collins 1897 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233Alford Q Collins 1897 a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age, the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record, the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting. 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 publishers (Currier