Pioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 old Ontario print The likeness carries the careful

The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for

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

sent when Wilmington still called itself the Chemical Capital of the World

postmarked from the cotton mills' last good decade

Pioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 old Ontario print The likeness carries the carefulPioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 borrows Bishop Berkeley's old prophecy and dresses it in late century chromolithograph splendor wagon wheels, trail dust, and the long American habit of mistaking momentum for destiny. By 1897 the frontier was already declared closed, which makes this image less reportage than mythmaking in arrears. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical