George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 World map print A streetscape from the era

A streetscape from the era when Harlem promised mansions and music halls before the boulevard itself was rewritten

Garfield 1881 — a memorial lithograph assembled in the months after Guiteau's bullet

when the West was still wide enough to run and nearly done being wild

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 World map print A streetscape from the eraGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the