Hamilton Fish, Representative From New York, 1844 Size:18x24 where the firmament thins and

where the firmament thins and the sun itself becomes just another star

every course numbered in the patient hand of a draftsman who knew the first tower had already been swallowed whole in the gale of 1851

The Barbers Edge Sheffield Razor Strop Patent 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

The Originator of the World's Columbian Exposition 1892 — a commemorative portrait pitched to the gilded confidence of Chicago's great fair

Hamilton Fish, Representative From New York, 1844 Size:18x24 where the firmament thins andHamilton Fish, Representative From New York, 1844 a Whig portrait from the year Polk's expansionists swept the field, capturing the young Knickerbocker congressman before the long arc that would carry him to Albany, the Senate, and Grant's State Department. 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