George Washington 1892 Gift_for_Broncos_Fan Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 —

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 — the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic

Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait floated by Whigs who believed the Senate's great voice belonged in the executive chair

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Randolph's gaunt profile returns here as relic

4442735 comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

George Washington 1892 Gift_for_Broncos_Fan Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 —George Washington 1892 a late century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the General's death, the kind of commemorative likeness a Gilded Age parlor wanted on its wall: the founder rendered marble cool, the republic he left behind already industrializing past recognition. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and