Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art and his march back to

and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets

The Brewmasters Blueprint Zwietusch Beer Making Patent captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France

the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 — a fraternal emblem from the age when laboring men insured one another against catastrophe through ritual and lodge dues

Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art and his march back toBenjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847. A mid century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best, half philosopher, half founder, summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National