Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art rendered in the sober lithographic

rendered in the sober lithographic register reserved for men whose vocations crossed both ocean and color line in the long aftermath of the war

the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

Abraham Lincoln 1918 — a Great War-era remembrance of the martyred president

Capital Bird's Eye View Vintage Art from Bella Frye

its lantern-room geometry and spiraling stair drawn with the patience of someone who knew this light would outlast the men who tended it

Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art rendered in the sober lithographicBenjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847. A mid century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best, half philosopher, half founder, summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National