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The Koken Chair Patent a Study in the Architecture of Grooming 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

Battle of New Berne NC 1885 — a commemorative rendering issued two decades after the guns fell silent

Citizens Volunteer Hospital

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and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes

Camp Thompson Encampment of the Springfield Light Guard 19th Century Framed_Giants The Koken Chair Patent aCamp Thompson Encampment of the Springfield Light Guard, 19th Century. A documentary photograph of citizen soldiers at bivouac canvas tents in orderly rows, the Light Guard posed with the stiff dignity of a militia that took its drill seriously, half pageant and half preparedness in the long quiet after Appomattox. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,