Thaddeus Stevens 1838 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the Mormon Temple's six

and the Mormon Temple's six granite spires rising over Salt Lake City

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry 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

drawn with the trembling reverence of a man watching the sun exhale

Equal parts cartography

ready to hang

Thaddeus Stevens 1838 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the Mormon Temple's sixThaddeus Stevens 1838. A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid career, years before his radical ascendancy in Congress, when his quarrel with the slaveholding republic was still being waged in statehouse chambers and the cutting prose of antebellum debate. 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