Centennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 4th of july art or the kind of library

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

captured at the high tide of American maritime ambition when clipper hulls and whaling fleets carried the young republic's commerce to every meridian

Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word

The Chief Justices of the United States 1894 assembles the men who shaped the bench from Jay to Fuller

The Publicans Vessel — Patent Drawing of the American Beer Mug is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

Centennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 4th of july art or the kind of libraryCentennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 a hundred years out from Independence, the republic paused to commemorate itself in lithographed laurels and patriotic flourish, the ink still warm with the work of remembrance after a war that nearly unmade the experiment. 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