Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 Size:24x18 The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come

his gaunt features rendered in the grave register reserved for men carrying a fracturing republic

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 Size:24x18 The Gentlemans Morning Ritual PatentBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National