Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 sacramento_print and monument — Baltimore as

and monument — Baltimore as it wished to be remembered

The Koken Chair Patent a Study in the Architecture of Grooming belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Washington arrives in mist and evergreen — Rainier shouldering through cloud

over whom citizenship was for

Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 sacramento_print and monument — Baltimore asDeclaration of Independence, July 4th 1776 the founding instrument rendered in engraver's hand, every signature copied with the reverence due men who pledged their lives and fortunes to a sentence whose ending none could yet read. 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, Kurz &