Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and quietly ticking toward God

and quietly ticking toward God

President Abraham Lincoln and His Generals 1884 a posthumous group portrait assembled nearly two decades after Appomattox

and finding the soul outranked by Saturn

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and quietly ticking toward GodRussell J. Colt, 19th Century a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography, all starched collar and inherited gravity, the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier