where Giants fans once climbed the rocks above Eighth Avenue to watch McGraw's nine for free — a Harlem ballyard rendered in the reverent tones owed to a true civic shrine
and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs
the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending
The Arithmeticians Engine — Patent Blueprint of Mechanical Calculation is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall
its margins crowded with patriotic vignettes and signatories' portraits — a printer's argument that the words of 1776 still bound a country now learning what they cost
Washington as a Mason 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where Giants fans once climbedWashington as a Mason 1867 renders the first president in full Masonic regalia apron, sash, and trowel a postwar lithograph that reaches back through the lodge to claim the founder for a fraternity busy rebuilding its civic standing in the bruised years after Appomattox. 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