Custer's Last Charge 1876 fdr portrait framed Hobart 1897 — a campaign

Hobart 1897 — a campaign chromolithograph rigging the Republican ticket to the old metaphor of the Republic as vessel

Charging the Guns 1891 — a late-century military scene rendered in the muscular vocabulary of post-war remembrance

grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue

his ministers gathered around a table where ink

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 — a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post-war republic

Custer's Last Charge 1876 fdr portrait framed Hobart 1897 — a campaignCuster's Last Charge 1876 a lithograph rendering of the Little Bighorn made in the gilded language of martyrdom, sabers raised against a closing circle of Lakota and Cheyenne riders. The image arrived in American parlors as elegy and alibi at once, the frontier's reckoning dressed up as cavalry romance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional