John Adams Dix 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame and Art Deco façades that

and Art Deco façades that the linen-era printers rendered with almost tropical exaggeration

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756 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

his nickname already doing the political work that would carry him to the White House two years later — Manifest Destiny in epaulets

A commemorative portrait marking the elevation of the first American cardinal — Rome's red hat settled upon a Manhattan see

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

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