The Spirit of the Union 1876 Cincy_Bengals The Accountants Engine — Patent

The Accountants Engine — Patent Blueprint of Mechanical Computation is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

from the Virginian who refused a crown to the New Yorker who signed the Compromise

The Baron Cigarette Patent of 188 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

drawn for a city still learning that industry's promise carried its own concussive bill

The Spirit of the Union 1876 Cincy_Bengals The Accountants Engine — PatentThe Spirit of the Union 1876 a Centennial chromolithograph that gathered the republic's hundred year ledger into allegory, printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it. 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 publishers