Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec 1620, 1845 howard chandler Ancient Order of United Workmen

Ancient Order of United Workmen Purity Education Elevation of Mankind 1881 — a fraternal chromolithograph rendered in the elaborate symbolic grammar of the Gilded Age lodge hall

Snake Game Rules 1846 — a printed broadside of parlor instruction from the year Polk marched the country into Mexico

Kern — the 1908 ticket rendered in the dignified register of a campaign portrait

when the Cumberland still ran cold past the Confederate works

Abraham Lincoln 195 belongs to the vast iconography that accumulated around the sixteenth president — a portrait study reproduced and recirculated until the long face

Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec 1620, 1845 howard chandler Ancient Order of United WorkmenLanding of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec 1620, 1845. A mid century lithograph reaching back two centuries for its founding myth, rendered in the antebellum hunger for origin stories Plymouth Rock conscripted into the iconography of a republic still arguing with itself over what kind of nation it meant to be. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,