Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778, Respectfully Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson framed beer art the moment a republic began

the moment a republic began

Patterson Park's tents pitched on Baltimore soil where loyalty itself was a contested matter and a New York colonel's name held the line in ink

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

her likeness wreathed in the motto that bound thirteen quarrelsome colonies into a single experiment — a portrait that asks her to carry

Robert Edward Lee 1877 — a posthumous likeness of the Confederate general issued seven years after his death at Lexington

Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778, Respectfully Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson framed beer art the moment a republic beganFranklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778, Respectfully Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson an engraving of the moment Versailles bowed slightly toward a printer from Philadelphia, gilt courtiers leaning in to glimpse the rustic philosopher whose treaty would tip a war. 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