Andrew Allen, Member of the Continental Congress, 19th Century benjamin franklin and industrial captains share the

and industrial captains share the same gilt borders as if all had labored at the same drafting table

The Founders of Odd Fellowship in America 1891 — a commemorative lithograph assembling the fraternal patriarchs in solemn medallion arrangement

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The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

The Keepers Vigil Hooper Island Light Station Blueprint reads like a Chesapeake confession — the caisson's iron skirt and conical tower charted with the patient geometry of engineers who knew the Bay's shoal water would freeze

Andrew Allen, Member of the Continental Congress, 19th Century benjamin franklin and industrial captains share theAndrew Allen, Member of the Continental Congress, 19th Century a later engraved portrait of the Pennsylvania delegate whose loyalties soured before independence was signed, rendered in the sober line work of a century that preferred its founders edited into marble. 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 lithographic