A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 NRG_Stadium_Canvas The Gentlemans Peculiar Apparatus Patent

The Gentlemans Peculiar Apparatus Patent for the Preservation of the Victorian Moustache belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

the gunboats arrayed in a deliberate crescent that turned a muddy backwater into the Union's first great western victory

Arms of the States and Territories of the American Union 1876

Family Picture for the Million

A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 NRG_Stadium_Canvas The Gentlemans Peculiar Apparatus PatentA View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 the morning Captain Montgomery raised the Stars and Stripes over the sleepy bayside village, claiming Alta California for a republic still mid stride in its westward appetite. The view holds that quiet hour before a hamlet of adobe and masts became a city. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional