Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the line between athlete

and the line between athlete and infantryman had not yet been drawn

Independence Declared 1776

this commemorative portrait belongs to the Lost Cause's long second act — Lee rendered not as defeated general but as marble saint

The lithographer's hand lingers on those famously hollowed eyes

The long shadow of Reconstruction closing over its most stubborn survivor

Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the line between athleteHorticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 renders Chicago's glass and iron cathedral to American botany in the ornamented hand of an exposition draftsman, where the Republic announced its arrival as a cultural power by housing palms beneath a dome wider than any built before it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical