Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883) framed barber decor issued in the Tyler interregnum

issued in the Tyler interregnum when the Whig coalition was fracturing and the office itself still felt like an experiment with eight surviving variations

Andrew Jackson President of the United States 1833

every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence

and flag arranged in the moral arithmetic of Protestant labor declaring itself the rightful heir of the republic

where a planet could be found by arithmetic alone

Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883) framed barber decor issued in the Tyler interregnumEvacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883). A centennial print summoning the morning the last redcoats withdrew from Manhattan and Washington rode down through a city finally his own remembrance rendered a hundred years on, when the Republic had grown old enough to mythologize its own beginning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,