George Washington Entering Trenton 1789 optician_definition A small print

A small print

scrutinizing aftermath of the war

Clement's shoals — a Chesapeake-tributary keeper's cottage with its lantern perched atop the roof

Army of the Tennessee — a documentary lithograph fixing the moment a Union commander fell from his horse outside the besieged city

when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier-statesman destiny seemed to demand

George Washington Entering Trenton 1789 optician_definition A small printGeorge Washington Entering Trenton 1789. A commemorative engraving of the president elect passing beneath the triumphal arch on his way to the first inauguration the same Trenton where, thirteen winters earlier, he had crossed the Delaware to keep the Revolution from dying in the snow. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,