Benjamin Franklin 1842-1852 framed bar poster the river below them already

the river below them already a Union artery

and the brisk civic ambition of a city rebuilt from its own ashes

George Washington

The Ansonia Gilded Age Monument to Manhattan Grandeur renders the Upper West Side's beaux-arts behemoth in full operatic swagger — mansard roofs

19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg

Benjamin Franklin 1842-1852 framed bar poster the river below them alreadyBenjamin Franklin 1842 1852 a mid century lithograph cast in the long memory of the republic, where Franklin's likeness was reproduced and reissued as antebellum America searched its founders for ballast against the gathering quarrels of expansion and union. 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