Presidents of the United States 1898 Olympia_wall_art Portrait of Alexander Campbell 1862

Portrait of Alexander Campbell 1862 sits the sitter squarely in the war's second year

Robert Louis Stevenson 199 — a portrait of the Scottish novelist whose American sojourns from Saranac Lake to the Pacific made him a fixture of late-century literary celebrity

The Barbers Shroud Patent Drawing of 1897 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

surveyed by Victorian astronomy as both geometry and elegy

Presidents of the United States 1898 Olympia_wall_art Portrait of Alexander Campbell 1862Presidents of the United States 1898 assembles the executive lineage from Washington through McKinley in a single commemorative chromolithograph, the kind of civic wall piece printed when the republic still measured itself by the orderly succession of bearded men in oval frames. 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