Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Chicago gift idea General John Alexander Logan 1874

General John Alexander Logan 1874 — the Illinois volunteer turned senator rendered in the sober dignity of a postwar portrait

The Publicans Contraption — Patent Drawing for Beer Dispensing Apparatus is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

an orrery rendered as devotional plate

The Grand Repository New York Public Library Postcard renders the Beaux-Arts colossus on Fifth Avenue in the full pomp of its Carrère & Hastings glory — Patience and Fortitude couchant at the steps

when the great abolitionist voice had thinned to a whisper and his Civil Rights Bill still languished in committee — a portrait shadowed by the unfinished business of Reconstruction itself

Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Chicago gift idea General John Alexander Logan 1874Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century a portrait of the Union's quietest thunderbolt, rendered in the rank he held when Lincoln finally found the general who would not retreat. The lithograph carries the stillness of a man who fought with ledgers and cigars as much as with cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,