House of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, 19th Century framed battle art exacting hand of a Light-House

exacting hand of a Light-House Board draftsman — every braced leg

The document returns as icon

and bronze relief

Henshaw arrived at the Navy Department as steam was beginning to displace sail — his recess appointment rendered in the formal portraiture of a republic still arguing

with a single broadside

House of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, 19th Century framed battle art exacting hand of a Light-HouseHouse of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the chamber where Bleeding Kansas tried to legislate its way out of its own gunfire the free state men convened in defiance of a proslavery legislature, drafting a republic in miniature while the larger Union ground toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library