General Scott at Cerro Gordo 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the period broadsides that

and the period broadsides that documented American sea power

summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it

The Sunken Chamber Baltimore Caisson Engineering Blueprint charts the strange architecture of a lighthouse built from the seabed up — a pneumatic iron cylinder sunk into Chesapeake mud

and wheat-belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view

Greeting to America 19th Century — an engraved salutation from the long American century

General Scott at Cerro Gordo 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the period broadsides thatGeneral Scott at Cerro Gordo 1847 a campaign engraving from the Mexican War's mountain pass, where Winfield Scott's flanking maneuver around Santa Anna's batteries opened the road to Mexico City and rehearsed, in miniature, the Manifest Destiny argument the Republic was busy making with cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical