Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 Photographer_Print Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

half a century after his death

this memorial tract carries the long mourning cadence of a republic still rehearsing how to bury its leaders

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

where a screw-pile station had to outwit hurricanes and the slow

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 Photographer_Print Andrew JohnsonBurning of the Library of Congress 1892 a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves, smoke pouring from the Capitol's old west front while clerks hauled volumes into the cold air, the republic briefly reading itself by firelight. 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