Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, 1872 discipline_canvas The opening engagement of the

The opening engagement of the Mexican War rendered with all the swagger of Manifest Destiny in full march — Zachary Taylor's artillery duel on the Texas chaparral

shoulder to shoulder

this is the founding document of the United States — the words Jefferson wrote

The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace Patent — Instruments of the Morning Ritual is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

just as the Whigs sharpened their knives for the log-cabin election

Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, 1872 discipline_canvas The opening engagement of theChicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, 1872 a documentary engraving of the city's harrowing exodus, drawn in the long shadow of the Great Fire as crowds, carts, and panicked horses press across the river while the skyline behind them glows with its own undoing. 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