The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
its allegory ripening in a year when Lincoln and Douglas were still arguing the future of the Union from Illinois platforms
and the Mormon Temple's six granite spires rising over Salt Lake City
1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting
Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat The Barbers Contraption — PatentBattle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 Union Gen. McClellan Commanding. A documentary engraving of the Peninsula Campaign's muddy reckoning, where Hancock's bayonets came down a Virginia slope and earned him, in McClellan's own dispatch, the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,