Emblem of the International Longshoremen's Association 1912 framed indiana map and protocol drawn with the

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

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

Army of the United States Corps Badges

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

Election Tuesday October 12th AD 1875 — a campaign broadside summoning Ohio's voters to a third Hayes gubernatorial run

Emblem of the International Longshoremen's Association 1912 framed indiana map and protocol drawn with theEmblem of the International Longshoremen's Association 1912 a fraternal device drawn for the men who worked the docks, its rope and anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving. 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