Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when Lincoln had passed from

when Lincoln had passed from president into patron saint and printers competed to enshrine the martyr in parlor varnish three decades after Ford's Theatre

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

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

The portrait of Lincoln's indispensable man — the New Yorker who once expected the presidency for himself and instead negotiated the Union's diplomacy through war

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when Lincoln had passed fromCinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 renders the Mende leader in the dignified portraiture usually reserved for statesmen a deliberate provocation in a republic still arguing whether the men aboard La Amistad were cargo or kin, and whether the courts would dare answer. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the