Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art the kind of plate that

the kind of plate that once made Victorian astronomers feel they were reading God's own marginalia

rendered with the solemn ornament that lodge culture demanded of its patriarchs

and lived to purchase Alaska from a tsar

The Keepers Tower at Worlds Edge reads like a draftsman's reckoning with the end of the map — a masonry sentinel braced against the long Atlantic

its interior helix of stairs winding up through bolted ring-segments toward the lantern room

Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art the kind of plate thatBenjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 a commemorative likeness honoring Franklin not as statesman or sage but as the ink stained tradesman who set type along Market Street, issued in the bicentennial mood of a republic about to discover what world war required of its founders' inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical