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The Rosales Cigar Patent of 196 is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

the conqueror of the Spanish fleet rendered

The Gilded Balconies of Mott Street looks down the spine of Chinatown's busiest artery

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William Buel Franklin, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Rosales Cigar Patent ofWilliam Buel Franklin, 19th Century a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg, his Left Grand Division swallowed by the slaughter below Marye's Heights. The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National