Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 nyc framed art The Barbers Blade Keeper —

The Barbers Blade Keeper — Patent Drawing of Victorian Shaving Ritual captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

These postcards trade in dune grass and dory boats

United Americans of the State of New York 1848 — a nativist banner from the year of revolutions abroad and Free Soil agitation at home

the words themselves an act of stubborn cartographic faith

Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 nyc framed art The Barbers Blade Keeper —Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 a panoramic chromolithograph of the White City rising on the Lake Michigan shore, its Beaux Arts palaces and lagoons drafted with the booster's certainty that Chicago, four hundred years after Columbus, had earned its place among the capitals of the world. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National