Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840 Art_for_Kitchen Pennsylvania Philadelphia arrives by way

Pennsylvania Philadelphia arrives by way of cobblestone and cracked bell — lithographed views of Independence Hall

when the men who fed America's furnaces organized their grievances into something the operators could no longer ignore — solidarity rendered in the formal type of a movement still finding its language

The Gentlemans Vanity Device — Patent Drawing No 278999 reads as a study in restraint — the close

The Foye Bottling Apparatus — Patent Blueprint of Industrial Ingenuity reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840 Art_for_Kitchen Pennsylvania Philadelphia arrives by wayRichard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840. The Kentuckian who rode the legend of Tecumseh's death into Van Buren's second chair, rendered here in the fixed solemnity of a campaign era portrait a Jacksonian foot soldier elevated to the rostrum, just as the Whigs sharpened their knives for the log cabin election. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the