George Washington 1892 Gift_for_Broncos_Fan General Ulysses S

General Ulysses S

George Washington 1st President of the United States 1846 — a mid-century lithograph that summons the founder back into a republic already arguing over its westward inheritance

The Oppl Beer Transport Apparatus — Patent Drawing No 527123 is the kind of drawing a brewmaster pinned above his desk — a small mechanical solution to a very specific problem of yeast

paddlewheelers churning the brown river at Vicksburg

4442735 comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

George Washington 1892 Gift_for_Broncos_Fan General Ulysses SGeorge Washington 1892 a late century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the General's death, the kind of commemorative likeness a Gilded Age parlor wanted on its wall: the founder rendered marble cool, the republic he left behind already industrializing past recognition. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and