Charging the Guns 1891 Spaniel_poster White House

White House

the unglamorous arithmetic by which an army is fed before it is bled

The Gillette Razor Patent of 194 Blueprint of the Modern Morning Ritual comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

The plate carries the somber arithmetic of Manifest Destiny: a republic counting its dead in the ledger of expansion

Charging the Guns 1891 Spaniel_poster White HouseCharging the Guns 1891 a late century military scene rendered in the muscular vocabulary of post war remembrance, when the Republic's artists were still working out how to draw smoke and valor without the ghost of Antietam in the frame. 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 & Ives,