Lincoln as Boy 1914 old jamaica map and copper seam drawn with

and copper seam drawn with the patience of a profession that measured success by the proof

Old John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 traces the abolitionist's incendiary path in panel after panel — Pottawatomie to Harpers Ferry — a documentary engraving that treats the man as both prophet and powder keg in the year the Union began to fracture in earnest

the Colossal Statue by Bartholdi Presented by the French People to America 1883

when Guastavino tilework arched overhead like the nave of a buried cathedral and the first downtown trains slid through Heins & LaFarge's vaulted dark

The General's Eternal Vigil: Riverside Mausoleum Nocturne renders Grant's Tomb in moonlit hush above the Hudson

Lincoln as Boy 1914 old jamaica map and copper seam drawn withLincoln as Boy 1914 a 1914 backward glance at the rail splitter before the railsplitting, issued in the year Europe went to war and America began rehearsing the myths it would soon need most. The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come. 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 lithographic publishers