In Honor of Our Hero 1898 oakland_canvas and Aquila wheeling across the

and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes

the Kentucky senator rendered with the studied dignity of a man certain the presidency was his — a certainty the electorate would

The word Late does the heavy lifting here

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

rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840

In Honor of Our Hero 1898 oakland_canvas and Aquila wheeling across theIn Honor of Our Hero 1898 a commemorative print issued in the flush of victory after Manila Bay and San Juan Hill, when the republic discovered it could mint heroes as quickly as it laid undersea cable. The reverence here is brassy, unembarrassed, the tribute of a nation newly persuaded of its own reach. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional