Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art and the Mormon Temple's six

and the Mormon Temple's six granite spires rising over Salt Lake City

Wheeler 1876 — a Republican campaign lithograph from the centennial year

A documentary engraving of the Swamp Fox at his rough Carolina table

the kind of personal record that surfaces from a republic still cataloguing its returned soldiers and reckoning with the unwelcome maturity the war had pressed upon it

gilded paddleboxes

Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art and the Mormon Temple's sixLife of Our Pioneers 1915 looks backward even as the world tilts forward, a 1915 commemorative tribute to the wagon road generation issued just as American boys were being measured for a different kind of frontier across the Atlantic. The pioneer here is already memory sanctified, archived, and quietly enlisted into the republic's second sober century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library