Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma ink and blood meeting on

ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April

The Mink Paper Clip Patent of 1919 — Blueprint of the Humble Binding is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863

The portrait belongs to that long aftermath

a late portrait of the Union's hardest rider rendered in the elegiac register of a republic still cataloging its survivors

Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma ink and blood meeting onJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,