Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when Mathewson's name on the

when Mathewson's name on the marquee meant the National League had its philosopher-king on the mound

frozen on cheap cardstock and given away with a winter coat

Blue Spruce Motel Spokane Washington arrives in neon-lit promise along the highway's edge — tidy cabins ringed by namesake evergreens

the silver hull tethered against a city of lit windows

captured in the bright linen postcards of the open-road era

Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when Mathewson's name on theBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,