James Madison 1897 large vintage map issued seventy years after his

issued seventy years after his death by a republic still arguing over what he meant

and Ocean Boulevard at high season

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

by the end

A battle lithograph from Taylor's Mexican campaign

James Madison 1897 large vintage map issued seventy years after hisJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,