Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century framed sports art 1864 — Lincoln's Bloomington thunder

1864 — Lincoln's Bloomington thunder set in type during the war's hinge year

preserving the original handwriting

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 — a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig powers

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

Patrick's twin towers in the brooding chiaroscuro of a Gilded Age plate — pinnacles and flying buttresses sharpened against a leaden sky

Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century framed sports art 1864 — Lincoln's Bloomington thunderBattle of Buena Vista 19th Century a lithograph of Taylor's improbable February stand against Santa Anna in the Mexican mountains, where outnumbered American volunteers held a narrow pass and minted a presidency in the smoke of Manifest Destiny's most consequential campaign. 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