Grand National Democratic Banner: Peace! Union! and Victory! 1864 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Deering Beer Pump Patent

The Deering Beer Pump Patent Mechanical Drawings of Victorian Libation Engineering captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

his likeness summoned again as a republic mobilizing for Europe reached back to the man who had once held it together

Harbor of Ambition: Lower Manhattan's Gilded Gateway frames the southern tip of the island in its full mercantile swagger — a harbor bristling with masts and steam stacks

conscripting the language of 1776 to wage a quieter war against the saloon

Grand National Democratic Banner: Peace! Union! and Victory! 1864 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Deering Beer Pump PatentGrand National Democratic Banner: Peace! Union! and Victory! 1864 the campaign chromolithograph for McClellan and Pendleton, hoisting its triple slogan against Lincoln's war ledger. Every word on the banner is an argument: end the killing, mend the Union, and call that combination victory before the ballots are counted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National