James Madison 1911 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame George Washington 1863

George Washington 1863

the weight of a republic still inventing its own iconography

Governor of Indiana 1862-1864

Commander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 assembles the surviving Union officers nearly three decades on

The Barbers Apparatus Patent Drawing No 127121 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

James Madison 1911 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame George Washington 1863James Madison 1911 a commemorative portrait of the fourth president issued nearly a century after his second term, the Father of the Constitution rendered for an Edwardian America already busy mythologizing its founders into marble and ink. 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 publishers (Currier &