John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print hand-cranked grist mills

hand-cranked grist mills

and any space drawn to the founding era — when the republic was still a proposition rather than a fact

Mary Ball Washington the Mother of George Washington 1912 — a commemorative portrait issued in the long afterglow of Founding-era reverence

from the Virginian who refused a crown to the New Yorker who signed the Compromise

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John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print hand-cranked grist millsJohn Greenleaf Whittier 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Quaker abolitionist poet, issued seven years after his death, when the nation had begun to canonize the New England conscience that once bent so insistently toward emancipation. The likeness carries the hush of remembrance, ink softened into sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,