Frederic C. Penfield 1923 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The plate carries the bearing

The plate carries the bearing of a man who believed himself the rightful commander of a revolution

issued for the year Chicago staged Columbus's fourth centenary and Cleveland unseated Harrison — a republic taking inventory of itself beneath the white domes of the fairgrounds

51619 captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

Independence Day here is less celebration than reckoning

The Wandering Gods Celestial Mechanics of Mars Jupiter traces the looping retrograde paths of the two great wanderers — the war-god and the storm-king — across an ephemeris page where mathematics and mythology share the same ink

Frederic C. Penfield 1923 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The plate carries the bearingFrederic C. Penfield 1923 a portrait of the diplomat who served as Wilson's last ambassador to Austria Hungary, captured the year of his death, when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe. 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