Death of John Quincy Adams at the U.S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 23896 Cross Bow by C

23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 — Sanftleben and Russel's inventor's diagram catches the crossbow at a curious American moment

The typography insists on reverence

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

Battle of Franklin November 30 1864 Union Gen Schofield Conf Gen Hood 1891 — a late commemorative rendering of Hood's catastrophic frontal assault against Schofield's entrenched Federals in the Tennessee dusk

and the rising shadow of the Chrysler spire conspire in a single bustling thoroughfare

Death of John Quincy Adams at the U.S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 23896 Cross Bow by CDeath of John Quincy Adams at the U. S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848. The old man eloquent collapsed at his desk in the House chamber, felled mid debate over the Mexican War, and this lithograph gathers the colleagues around him with the hushed theatricality reserved for a republic losing one of its last living links to the Founding. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the