Benjamin Franklin, the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A presidential portrait from the

A presidential portrait from the inaugural year of the scholar-president

The Hofmann Brewing Apparatus — Patent Archive Print is the kind of drawing a brewmaster pinned above his desk — a small mechanical solution to a very specific problem of yeast

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1841 — a Senate portrait of the Kentuckian whose name would later attach itself to the last great compromise before the war

Benjamin Franklin, the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A presidential portrait from theBenjamin Franklin, the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France an engraved homage to the bespectacled printer who arrived at Versailles in fur cap and plain cloth, charming a kingdom of silk into bankrolling a revolution it could scarcely afford. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic