Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 Size:24x36 The Gentlemans Vanity Patent for

The Gentlemans Vanity Patent for the Whisker Shield is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

the Democrat who would carry expansion's banner straight into the bruising campaign of '48

The face that hung in tavern parlors from Tennessee to Pennsylvania

Lynch of Mississippi

all framed by a horizon that refuses to end

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 Size:24x36 The Gentlemans Vanity Patent forDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National