Arms of the United States of America 1864 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The American National Chart 199

The American National Chart 199 unfurls the republic as schoolroom catechism — presidents in oval medallions

on a citizenship still being contested

The lithograph belongs to that anxious season when broadsides argued for a country still legally whole and visibly fracturing

US Shield of Honor 19th Century — a heraldic chromolithograph in the patriotic vernacular of the period

all gilded by the century's restless faith that the horizon owed something to those who reached it

Arms of the United States of America 1864 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The American National Chart 199Arms of the United States of America 1864 renders the national heraldry mid rupture eagle, shield, and olive branch held together on paper while the country itself was held together by ledgers of recruits and the long arithmetic of war. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives,