Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed antique art and wheat-belt skies stretched wide

and wheat-belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view

Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States

A Quadricentennial chromolithograph minted for the 400-year jubilee

These postcards remember a city built on tobacco warehouses

the pavilion lights

Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed antique art and wheat-belt skies stretched wideIndependence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian era vow, the broadside speaking in two voices across sixty three years one announcing a republic, the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,