John Charles Frémont 1861 Size:18x24 guiding mariners along a single

guiding mariners along a single trustworthy bearing into safe water

The Men of the Hour 1919 gathers the architects of the postwar settlement in the brittle afterglow of the Armistice — a group portrait of statesmen and commanders posed with the unwelcome gravity of a republic that had crossed an ocean to bury its dead

rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

The Musson Pencil Patent Blueprint of the Scriveners Tool is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

John Charles Frémont 1861 Size:18x24 guiding mariners along a singleJohn Charles Frmont 1861 the Pathfinder rendered in his second act, no longer the explorer of western passes but the Union general whose Missouri emancipation order ran ahead of Lincoln's caution and cost him his command. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,