General Winfield Scott 1861 large vintage map rendering the General-President as a

rendering the General-President as a brother of the lodge as much as a father of the republic

1848 — a campaign lithograph of the Kentucky general Lewis Cass tapped as running mate

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing reads as a study in restraint — the close

Chronological Chart of American History 1881 — a draftsman's attempt to corral a century of republic into orderly columns

General Winfield Scott 1861 large vintage map rendering the General-President as aGeneral Winfield Scott 1861 the aging hero of two earlier wars rendered at the threshold of a third, his Anaconda Plan already drawn in the margins of a country splitting open. The portrait carries the weight of a soldier who had outlived his century and was being asked, once more, to save the Union. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional