Christopher Columbus 1893 framed razor patent The Starting Point of the

The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States — a retrospective lithograph fixing its gaze on the first spark

issued the year the country asked its general to govern the peace he had won

the lieutenant general rendered with the quiet exhaustion of a man who had spent four years feeding ledgers of recruits into the meatgrinder and came out the other side with a country still standing

these maps bring timeless charm to any space

Christopher Columbus 1893 framed razor patent The Starting Point of theChristopher Columbus 1893. Issued in the year of the World's Columbian Exposition, this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white plaster pavilions and electric light the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,