Grant and His Family 1867 framed merchant gift The Heroes and Leaders of

The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox — a composite portrait insisting

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Walt Whitman 19th Century — a portrait of the bard who walked the army hospitals with notebook in hand

The Draftsmans Midnight Companion Patent No 2543926 is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Grant and His Family 1867 framed merchant gift The Heroes and Leaders ofGrant and His Family 1867 a domestic portrait of the Union's victorious general two years after Appomattox and two years before the White House, the soldier rendered as paterfamilias in the quieter register of a country still learning how to live with its own survival. 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