Interior View of Tammany Hall Decorated for the National Convention July 4th optician_print The apparatus reads like a

The apparatus reads like a small ceremony of the game — a chambered dispenser drafted with the gravity of a sport that took its rituals seriously

A posthumous engraving of the first president

Interior View of Tammany Hall Decorated for the National Convention July 4th — bunting-draped galleries and the great hall outfitted for Democratic ritual

brightest of the Pleiades

These postcards hold the original Mardi Gras town in lithographed bloom: cast-iron balconies

Interior View of Tammany Hall Decorated for the National Convention July 4th optician_print The apparatus reads like aInterior View of Tammany Hall Decorated for the National Convention July 4th bunting draped galleries and the great hall outfitted for Democratic ritual, an engraver's record of the Wigwam at its Independence Day pageant, when machine politics still wore the costume of civic virtue. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and