Christopher Columbus 1893 framed razor patent the lieutenant general rendered with

the lieutenant general rendered with the quiet exhaustion of a man who had spent four years feeding ledgers of recruits into the meatgrinder and came out the other side with a country still standing

issued the year the country asked its general to govern the peace he had won

The Foye Bottling Apparatus — Patent Blueprint of Industrial Ingenuity reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

Christopher Columbus 1893 framed razor patent the lieutenant general rendered withChristopher Columbus 1893. Issued in the year of the World's Columbian Exposition, this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white plaster pavilions and electric light the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,