A) the lap desk (?) if it is the jefferson im thinking, lol
Cynthia career field would be a office job such as assisting a CEO or leader of a company.
The work of Peter Paul Rubes is an example of the *Aristocratic* baroque.
Jefferson's party, known today as the Democratic-Republican Party, was then in full control of the apparatus of government—from the state legislature and city hall to the White House.
Jeffersonian democracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy