Distribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York Victoria_BC_Canada The lithograph carries the careful

The lithograph carries the careful gravity of Gilded Age politics

The Barbers Invention Patent Drawing of the Hair Cutters Comb captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived

Walker of the Texan Rangers Who Fell at the Battle of Huamantla on the 9th of October 1847 — a memorial lithograph for Samuel Walker

The Burkhart Beer Cooler Patent a Study in Victorian Temperance and Temptation is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Distribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York Victoria_BC_Canada The lithograph carries the carefulDistribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York a documentary engraving of the lottery night when subscribers crowded the great Broadway hall to learn which canvases fortune had assigned them, the Art Union's democratic experiment in culture playing out by drawn ticket and gaslight. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National