Franz Sigel 19th Century New York canvas art American Centennial Progress 1875 arrives

American Centennial Progress 1875 arrives a year ahead of the Philadelphia Exposition

and the natural patina of a document that has lived for nearly two hundred and fifty years

The Barbers Secret 1879 Folding Razor Patent captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

an immigrant Babel pressed into the bones of Lower Manhattan

Franz Sigel 19th Century New York canvas art American Centennial Progress 1875 arrivesFranz Sigel 19th Century the German born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic, his likeness circulated through immigrant regiments who marched under the rallying cry "I fights mit Sigel" toward the bloodied fields of Pea Ridge and New Market. 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