Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A genealogical lithograph in the

A genealogical lithograph in the Victorian funerary mode

The Victoria Affair Midtown Secrets in Art Deco Splendor unfolds like a scene clipped from a 1929 society column — chrome setbacks and zigzag spandrels rising above a Midtown sidewalk where the Hotel Victoria's revolving doors keep the rumors moving

the broad symmetry of Temple Square

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A genealogical lithograph in theBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,