Major General Israel Putnam: He Dared to Lead Where Any Dared to Follow 1864 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame rendered here as documentary engraving

rendered here as documentary engraving

issued for the year Chicago staged Columbus's fourth centenary and Cleveland unseated Harrison — a republic taking inventory of itself beneath the white domes of the fairgrounds

The Barbers Blade Warner Safety Razor Patent Blueprint captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

the presidential box rendered in the same careful line as the playbill

when the matriarch of Ferry Farm was rediscovered by a republic intent on giving its first president a lineage as carefully composed as his myth

Major General Israel Putnam: He Dared to Lead Where Any Dared to Follow 1864 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame rendered here as documentary engravingMajor General Israel Putnam: He Dared to Lead Where Any Dared to Follow 1864 a wartime lithograph that reaches back across four score years to summon the old Connecticut farmer soldier as exemplar, his Revolutionary daring conscripted into the Union cause when the country needed every borrowed ghost it could muster. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,