Major General Zachary Taylor 1847 Baltimore_Football The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel Lighthouse

The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel Lighthouse Engineering Drawing charts a screw-pile sentinel braced against the brackish churn of the Patapsco — its hexagonal keeper's quarters and cast-iron legs drawn with the patient certainty of an engineer who knew the Chesapeake would test every joint

narrating the Ohio canal boy's ascent to the White House in panels arranged like stations of a civic passion play

Stonewall Jackson 1877 — a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Chancellorsky's woods claimed him

The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth Avenue casts one of the avenue's gilded guardians in the patient gravity of weathered metal — a statue keeping its long watch over the carriage trade

James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845

Major General Zachary Taylor 1847 Baltimore_Football The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel LighthouseMajor General Zachary Taylor 1847 catches Old Rough and Ready at the height of his Mexican War celebrity, the year of Buena Vista, when a stout general in a battered straw hat became the unlikely vessel for Whig ambition and the country's swelling appetite for conquered territory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and