In the Dark Days, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Gilded Balconies of Mott

The Gilded Balconies of Mott Street looks down the spine of Chinatown's busiest artery

Representative From New York

and the dignity of labor newly armed with a charter

almost ecclesiastical — a president translated

Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

In the Dark Days, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Gilded Balconies of MottIn the Dark Days, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885 a portrait from the general's final year, when bankruptcy and throat cancer pressed him toward the desk where he raced to finish his memoirs, the soldier's discipline turned at last upon the ledger of his own life. 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 publishers