The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A study in the sculptor

A study in the sculptor as monument-maker

the old Independence Building shouldering the skyline

Luna Park minarets

Hand-framed in the Pacific Northwest

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A study in the sculptorThe American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 reissues Jefferson's founding text at the precise moment the Union began to fracture, its margins crowded with patriotic vignettes and signatories' portraits a printer's argument that the words of 1776 still bound a country now learning what they cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,