Andrew Allen, Member of the Continental Congress, 19th Century Huge_Sailboat Governor of Pennsylvania 1848 —

Governor of Pennsylvania 1848 — a Whig portrait of the Keystone State's accidental executive

its iron cylinder sunk into Patapsco mud and crowned with a keeper's quarters built to outlast every nor'easter the bay could throw at it

Mississippi Biloxi rises from the Gulf in linen postcards heavy with shrimp luggers

Semmes stands with the unhurried confidence of a man who burned sixty-five Union prizes before Cherbourg's guns finally answered him — the South's most feared commerce raider rendered in the steady hand of a wartime portraitist who knew the legend was already outrunning the man

the spiral climb to the lantern room

Andrew Allen, Member of the Continental Congress, 19th Century Huge_Sailboat Governor of Pennsylvania 1848 —Andrew Allen, Member of the Continental Congress, 19th Century a later engraved portrait of the Pennsylvania delegate whose loyalties soured before independence was signed, rendered in the sober line work of a century that preferred its founders edited into marble. 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