Col. Funston and 20th Kansas Volunteers Crossing the River at Calumpit, April Frame Style:Verdigris Frame sails stretched taut against a

sails stretched taut against a Gilded Age sky

regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic

and the avenues drawn in the bold optimism of an architect who believed the future would be built

The Champions of the People's Right 1876 — a centennial-year campaign lithograph rallying behind the Democratic ticket of Tilden and Hendricks

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Col. Funston and 20th Kansas Volunteers Crossing the River at Calumpit, April Frame Style:Verdigris Frame sails stretched taut against aCol. Funston and 20th Kansas Volunteers Crossing the River at Calumpit, April a press image from the Philippine campaign, when a Kansas colonel waded into the Rio Grande de Pampanga and turned a muddy crossing into the kind of dispatch copy that minted American empire in newsprint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and