1893 Size:24x36 1866 — a commemorative lithograph

1866 — a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox

the mother's shadow assembled into national scripture

The Keepers Vigil Baltimore Lighthouse Architectural Cross Section charts the caisson-set sentinel that has held its ground on the Chesapeake's shoal-strewn mouth since 1908 — the draftsman tracing every rivet of its iron cylinder

Young American Crushing Rebellion and Sedition 1864 — an allegorical Union print from the bloodiest year of the war

and olive branch held together on paper while the country itself was held together by ledgers of recruits and the long arithmetic of war

1893 Size:24x36 1866 — a commemorative lithograph1893 a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning, when the Panic emptied banks and the World's Columbian Exposition rose in Chicago's White City to insist, against the evidence, that the republic was still ascendant. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz