General Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 antique map America The Barbers Implement Patent of

The Barbers Implement Patent of 1899 belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

The Wandering Gods Celestial Mechanics of Mars Jupiter traces the looping retrograde paths of the two great wanderers — the war-god and the storm-king — across an ephemeris page where mathematics and mythology share the same ink

A view of the great granite pile at City Hall Park in its first year of operation — Mullett's Second Empire colossus rising over Park Row

every rivet and bulkhead drawn with the gravity of someone who knew the weight of water overhead

1849 — a congressional portrait of the Accomack firebrand whose tongue could lash a chamber into silence

General Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 antique map America The Barbers Implement Patent ofGeneral Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 the moment rendered in ink before the field turned to slaughter, Longstreet's reluctant nod passing to Pickett as fifteen thousand men prepared to walk into the guns across that long Pennsylvania wheat. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical