Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh the avenue below hushed by

the avenue below hushed by the cathedral's long ecclesiastical shadow

longhorns drifting across rangeland that runs flat to the horizon

a commemorative document compiled in the long shadow of the war — the republic taking stock of itself at the Exposition

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

The Berninghaus Chair Patent — a Study in Victorian Innovation and the Art of Transformation reads as a study in restraint — the close

Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh the avenue below hushed byBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,