Armory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Size:24x18 Birds Eye View of the

Birds Eye View of the City of Charleston

a commemorative broadside arranging his plain-spoken counsel into something closer to scripture

a likeness reissued nearly half a century past Ford's Theatre — the martyred president recast in printer's ink for a generation that knew him only through monument and recitation

A documentary engraving of the August morning the admiral bound himself to the rigging of the Hartford and drove his squadron through the torpedoes of Mobile Bay — damnation spoken aloud

When John Paul Jones Came Home 1918 — a press photograph of the Revolution's drowned admiral repatriated at last

Armory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Size:24x18 Birds Eye View of theArmory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Philadelphia's mounted gentry, keepers of a continuous ceremonial thread from Washington's day, photographed at the armory that housed their saddles, sabers, and the quiet pride of a unit that had outlasted every administration it ever escorted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National