Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print that it had survived itself

that it had survived itself

Our Country's Heroes 1899 — a commemorative chromolithograph assembled in the flush of victory

The engraver gives him the steady gaze of a man who answered Lincoln's correspondence and Rome's both

19th Century gathers the founders beneath the square and compass — Washington

Henry Ward Beecher 1871 — a portrait of the Brooklyn pulpit's most thunderous voice at the height of his postwar influence

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print that it had survived itselfOur Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,