Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when Grant's image was being

when Grant's image was being recast from politician to monument

Every brace and tension rod is drawn by a hand that knew the bay would test each rivet

The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233 belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

and real-photo glimpses of mill stacks lit orange against the night shift

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when Grant's image was beingHon. Theodore Frelinghuysen the New Jersey senator and Whig vice presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid century portraiture, his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor, and a man's character was measured in pulpit cadence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,