Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Gentlemans Edge Adjustable Safety

The Gentlemans Edge Adjustable Safety Razor Patent belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

The Wandering Gods Celestial Mechanics of Mars Jupiter traces the looping retrograde paths of the two great wanderers — the war-god and the storm-king — across an ephemeris page where mathematics and mythology share the same ink

its eagles and bunting trumpeting a party already fissuring over slavery and union

Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with derrick grease and Art Deco ambition — a city that called itself the Oil Capital of the World and had the lithographed postcards to prove it

The Iron Sentinel of Cape Canaveral Maritime Engineering Blueprint charts the skeletal iron tower that has watched over Florida's hurricane coast since 1868 — its braced legs

Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Gentlemans Edge Adjustable SafetyAbraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 19th Century a presidential portrait rendered in the gaunt, hollow eyed manner the engravers favored late, when the war had carved his face into something closer to scripture than likeness, the Union's reluctant prophet staring past the viewer toward a country still tearing itself open. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,