Benjamin Franklin, the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France hooper island art The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age

The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age Manhattan Architecture Print renders the Park Avenue tower commissioned by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt himself — a 1912 monument to Beaux-Arts ambition where terra-cotta arches and Guastavino tile vaults announced that the family's empire had migrated upward into the Manhattan skyline

A campaign portrait of the Alabama senator yoked to Franklin Pierce on a ticket that bet the Union on compromise — King would win the office and die before he could meaningfully hold it

bracketing a life between two dates that the country was still learning how to mourn

The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian-era vow

the year of Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation

Benjamin Franklin, the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France hooper island art The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded AgeBenjamin Franklin, the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France an engraved homage to the bespectacled printer who arrived at Versailles in fur cap and plain cloth, charming a kingdom of silk into bankrolling a revolution it could scarcely afford. 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