In Loving Memory of Our Martyred President McKinley 1901 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame George Washington 1877 — a

George Washington 1877 — a centennial-era likeness of the first president

The Gentlemans Guillotine 196 Cigar Cutter Patent is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

19th Century — the Philippine military governor rendered in the stiff officer's portraiture of a republic newly in the empire business

Whether taken before Appomattox or after

his gaunt face rendered with the gravity of a man carrying a sundered Union on his shoulders

In Loving Memory of Our Martyred President McKinley 1901 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame George Washington 1877 — aIn Loving Memory of Our Martyred President McKinley 1901 a mourning chromolithograph issued in the stunned weeks after Buffalo, when an anarchist's bullet at the Pan American Exposition turned the architect of American empire into its first 20th century martyr. 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