Alford Q Collins 1897 framed cigar art all riveted spires and zigzag

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Alford Q Collins 1897 framed cigar art all riveted spires and zigzagAlford Q Collins 1897 a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age, the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record, the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier