Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 framed lighting The Draftsmans Burden — Patent

The Draftsmans Burden — Patent No 314559 is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

when Foote's ironclad flotilla churned up the Tennessee River and shelled the half-drowned Confederate works into submission before Grant's infantry ever arrived

in a speakeasy-styled basement

issued in 1896 when Gilded Age America had grown rich enough to mythologize the immigrant clerk who built its credit

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 framed lighting The Draftsmans Burden — PatentBombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861. Thirty four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor, drawn while the cannon was still warm and the country had not yet learned the word it was becoming. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional