Martha Washington 1893 Size:18x24 when initials pressed into paper

when initials pressed into paper carried the quiet authority of ledgers

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

Christopher Columbus Discoverer of America 1492 1892

General Robert Edward Lee 1886 — a posthumous commemorative portrait issued more than fifteen years after the surrender at Appomattox

It is an orrery flattened onto paper

Martha Washington 1893 Size:18x24 when initials pressed into paperMartha Washington 1893 a late century commemorative likeness of the first First Lady, issued in the long afterglow of centennial fervor, when the Republic was busy enshrining its founders in lithograph and bronze and quietly reshaping Martha into the matron the Gilded Age preferred to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical