Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A portrait of the Ohio

A portrait of the Ohio governor in the year he took the statehouse

and the great arcade glinting under gaslight — a Forest City rendered when iron ore from the lakes still met Pennsylvania coal at the harbor mouth

barbershop owners

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

The Capitol at Washington 1851 — a documentary engraving of the federal seat in the very year Congress authorized its great expansion

Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A portrait of the OhioTriennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s a Knights Templar conclave document from the Gilded Age Midwest, when fraternal regalia and Masonic pageantry filled Chicago's halls with plumed helmets, ceremonial swords, and the brisk civic ambition of a city rebuilt from its own ashes. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical