The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause
A portrait that carries Harpers Ferry in its eyes long before the raid
Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word
as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for
The Gilded Prison — 1932 Patent Archive is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall
Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Bingham Apparatus Patent forHonorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861 1897 a portrait of the Mississippi minister who, in 1870, became the first Black man seated in the United States Senate, occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis. The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,