Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when Lincoln had passed from

when Lincoln had passed from president into patron saint and printers competed to enshrine the martyr in parlor varnish three decades after Ford's Theatre

like silver

and the Royal Astronomical Society's draftsmen rendered the heavens as both mathematical proposition and quiet wonder

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when Lincoln had passed fromCinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 renders the Mende leader in the dignified portraiture usually reserved for statesmen a deliberate provocation in a republic still arguing whether the men aboard La Amistad were cargo or kin, and whether the courts would dare answer. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the