View of Broadway and Maiden Lane, New York City, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame and edges that turned a

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

The Muller Ice Machine Patent Industrial Alchemy of the Gilded Age belongs to the great American tradition of patenting the very small problem — a domestic object whose engineering far exceeded its kitchen-table use

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View of Broadway and Maiden Lane, New York City, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame and edges that turned aView of Broadway and Maiden Lane, New York City, 19th Century a documentary engraving of the great commercial artery at its busiest crossing, where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional