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and squeezers that turned the Gilded Age cocktail into a small piece of theater

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Thomas Jefferson 1897 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and squeezers that turned theThomas Jefferson 1897 a late century portrait of the Sage of Monticello, issued seventy years after his death by a republic still arguing over what he meant. The likeness belongs less to the man than to the memory: Jefferson rendered as civic scripture, retouched for a Gilded Age audience. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical