Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art 1836 — a posthumous portrait

1836 — a posthumous portrait of the republic's most unrepentant heretic

every curve and point drawn with the patience of a man who knew a hook is a small argument between angler and fish

gilded paddleboxes

Oct 18 1813 (1846) — a mid-century lithograph reaching back three decades to fix the Shawnee confederacy's last stand in the Upper Canadian mud

A documentary engraving of the Swamp Fox at his rough Carolina table

Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art 1836 — a posthumous portraitLife of Our Pioneers 1915 looks backward even as the world tilts forward, a 1915 commemorative tribute to the wagon road generation issued just as American boys were being measured for a different kind of frontier across the Atlantic. The pioneer here is already memory sanctified, archived, and quietly enlisted into the republic's second sober century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library