A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year
Frontier Life 1875 — a documentary engraving from the year Custer was charting the Black Hills and the treaty ink was already drying into broken promise
and any space drawn to the long sweep of American historical memory
The Owen Cigarette Patent — a Study in Smoke and Industry captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders
Frémont Planting the American Flag on the Rocky Mountains 1856 — a campaign lithograph that turns the Pathfinder's 1842 ascent into Republican iconography
Battle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico, Sept 8th 1847 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A commemorative engraving marking theBattle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico, Sept 8th 1847 a documentary engraving of Winfield Scott's costly assault on the stone mills outside Chapultepec, rendered in the brisk martial shorthand of the Mexican War, when Manifest Destiny was being argued in cannon smoke. 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