Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Capitol at Washington 1851

The Capitol at Washington 1851 — a documentary engraving of the federal seat in the very year Congress authorized its great expansion

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the face a country looked to while it tore itself toward emancipation

the numerals trailing the name suggesting a plate pulled from some larger compendium of American likenesses — Washington rendered

The Depp Apparatus Patent for the Extraction of Spirits comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Capitol at Washington 1851Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s a Knights Templar conclave document from the Gilded Age Midwest, when fraternal regalia and Masonic pageantry filled Chicago's halls with plumed helmets, ceremonial swords, and the brisk civic ambition of a city rebuilt from its own ashes. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical