Hannibal Hamlin Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1860 gift_for_architect The Tailors Instrument Melander Shears

The Tailors Instrument Melander Shears Patent is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

rendered in the dignified manner reserved for men whose fortunes shaped textile mills and library endowments alike

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with the keeper's hexagonal cottage perched mid-air like a lantern in a cage

Hannibal Hamlin Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1860 gift_for_architect The Tailors Instrument Melander ShearsHannibal Hamlin Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1860. The Maine senator rendered in campaign portrait gravity on the eve of Lincoln's election, his likeness pressed into circulation as the young Republican ticket marched toward a Union already fracturing beneath its feet. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional