A Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 confederate art The Gilded Balconies of Mott

The Gilded Balconies of Mott Street looks down the spine of Chinatown's busiest artery

February 1862

The portrait of Lincoln's indispensable man — the New Yorker who once expected the presidency for himself and instead negotiated the Union's diplomacy through war

an engraving from the age when an astronomer's hand still trembled between equation and prayer

Each map is set in a solid wood frame with ornate corners for an elegant touch

A Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 confederate art The Gilded Balconies of MottA Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 a Centennial year chromolithograph that reaches backward across nearly a hundred years to imagine the inaugural drawing room, the new republic learning its manners as Martha receives guests beside a general still becoming a president. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional