5 Men 1916 Size:24x18 its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with

its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving

Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe

Assault on Fort Sanders 1863 renders Longstreet's doomed November charge at Knoxville as a tangle of telegraph wire and frozen ditch

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

epaulets and sash arranged with the theatrical confidence of an officer whose march on Chapultepec was already being engraved into the republic's expansionist mythology

5 Men 1916 Size:24x18 its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with5 Men 1916 a press photograph of five figures squared to the lens on the eve of mobilization, their stillness carrying the particular weight of a republic about to be conscripted into a war it had spent three years watching from across the Atlantic. 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