Family Picture for the Million, 1888 framed sleigh The Ganim Apparatus Patent for

The Ganim Apparatus Patent for Oriental Smoke & Vapor is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

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Portrait of John Marshall Holding a Book After a Painting by Henry Inman

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Family Picture for the Million, 1888 framed sleigh The Ganim Apparatus Patent forFamily Picture for the Million, 1888 a parlor chromolithograph pitched at the new middle class, its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement. 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