Portraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield 1901 framed patent art when a single inventor's drawing

when a single inventor's drawing could change how a barrel was charred

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756 is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

The Keepers Iron Sentinel is a skeletal-iron tower drawn in the spare

a map of what stands above it

Portraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield 1901 framed patent art when a single inventor's drawingPortraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield, 1901 a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents, assembled in the raw months after McKinley's shooting in Buffalo, when the republic counted its assassinations and found, with grim arithmetic, that it had now lost three. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and