Presidents of the United States 1776-1876 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Eastman Pipe Patent —

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

A commemorative engraving of the obelisk completed at last after decades of stalled subscription and civil war

The Golden West 19th Century conjures the cartographer's romance of a continent still being inventoried — wagon-track and rail-line

Presidents of the United States 1776-1876 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Eastman Pipe Patent —Presidents of the United States 1776 1876 a centennial chromolithograph assembling the executive line from Washington to Grant, the Republic taking inventory of itself a century after the Declaration, with the war's smoke barely cleared from the gallery. 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 publishers