American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gillette Razor Patent of

The Gillette Razor Patent of 194 Blueprint of the Modern Morning Ritual comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

fixed in ink while the ledgers of the dead were still being tallied

Pairs naturally with vintage nautical charts

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756 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

when reformers wrapped the bottle and the ballot in the same revolutionary rhetoric

American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gillette Razor Patent ofAmerican Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century assembles the engraved faces of a republic still arguing with itself statesmen, generals, and presidents arrayed in the steel point manner of the parlor album, each visage rendered with the solemn finish that the nineteenth century reserved for men it wished to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National