Jefferson Columbus Davis 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame epaulets and sash rendered with

epaulets and sash rendered with the swagger of an army convinced Manifest Destiny could be settled by bayonet

The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

The parlor here is a balm

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

and salmon canneries dotting the Columbia

Jefferson Columbus Davis 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame epaulets and sash rendered withJefferson Columbus Davis 19th Century a portrait of the Union general whose name shadowed him through the war, forever confused with the Confederate president he fought against. The likeness carries the hard set of an officer who answered for Kentucky, Pea Ridge, and the killing of William Nelson in a Louisville hotel lobby. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National