Washington's Farewell Address 1856 Frame Style:Ebony Frame 1882 — a temperance broadside

1882 — a temperance broadside from the height of the dry crusade

and nodal crossings plotted with the grave precision of a Victorian selenographer convinced the heavens turned on hidden gears

every brick laid in the currency of Gilded Age ascendancy

A documentary engraving of the words that tried to stitch a riven country back to itself

The Singeing Apparatus of Poindexter Victorian Hair Burning Device Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

Washington's Farewell Address 1856 Frame Style:Ebony Frame 1882 — a temperance broadsideWashington's Farewell Address 1856 an antebellum reprinting of the first president's parting counsel against faction and foreign entanglement, issued precisely as the Union began to fray. The choice to set those warnings in type again, on the eve of secession, reads less like reverence than like a republic arguing with itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National