Death of Washington Dec 14 AD 1799 Framed_Giants Ancient Order of United Workmen

Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 — a fraternal emblem from the age when laboring men insured one another against catastrophe through ritual and lodge dues

The scene hums with carriage trade and old-money swagger

America's Welcome to Dewey 1899 — a chromolithograph of the homecoming pageantry staged for the hero of Manila Bay

delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it

deliberate work of canonizing its wartime executives in lithographed remembrance

Death of Washington Dec 14 AD 1799 Framed_Giants Ancient Order of United WorkmenDeath of Washington, Dec 14 AD 1799 a mourning lithograph fixing the hour the General slipped from Mount Vernon into myth, the bedside grief of a young republic learning, for the first time, how to bury its founders. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,