William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 49ers_Print gilded heyday of Great Lakes

gilded heyday of Great Lakes side-wheelers

Rendered in the early months of the war

Ready to hang

Around the Globe with the United States Atlantic Fleet - Vintage Maritime Print chronicles Roosevelt's Great White Fleet on its 1907 world cruise — sixteen battleships rendered hull-to-hull in a chromolithograph that swells with the bravado of a young empire announcing itself by smokestack and signal flag

The Declaration of Independence and Portraits of the Presidents 1861-1865 binds Jefferson's founding sentences to the careworn faces of Lincoln's wartime cabinet

William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 49ers_Print gilded heyday of Great LakesWilliam Tecumseh Sherman 1877 a portrait of the general a dozen years after Atlanta, his face hardened into the iconography of a republic still reckoning with what total war had cost it. The likeness carries the weight of a man who outlived his own legend and refused to soften it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and