Historical Sketch of the US and Souvenir of the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus 1897 Victoria_BC_Canada his Mississippi delegation rendered in

his Mississippi delegation rendered in the dignified parlor-portrait grammar Reconstruction reserved for men it did not yet know how to remember

July 4th 1776–1876 — a Centennial engraving that gathers fifty-six faces and their inked hands into one civic constellation

the gaze middle-distance

fresh from negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

A campaign portrait of the Maine senator hoisted onto Lincoln's ticket — the steady New England face the new Republican party offered the country in the season before secession turned ballots into battlefields

Historical Sketch of the US and Souvenir of the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus 1897 Victoria_BC_Canada his Mississippi delegation rendered inHistorical Sketch of the US and Souvenir of the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus 1897 arrives in the wake of the Columbian Exposition, a commemorative pamphlet print dressed in the ornamented confidence of a republic eager to braid its own short chronicle into Columbus's longer myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National