Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh the old Marion Hotel

the old Marion Hotel

The Declaration of Independence

Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s — a Knights Templar conclave document from the Gilded Age Midwest

and the natural patina of a document that has lived for nearly two hundred and fifty years

The Berninghaus Chair Patent — a Study in Victorian Innovation and the Art of Transformation reads as a study in restraint — the close

Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh the old Marion HotelBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,