Col. John C. Frémont Planting the American Flag on the Rocky Mountains 1856 barbershop decor The reverence here is brassy

The reverence here is brassy

his likeness fixed in the years when he thundered against secession from the Senate floor and the Union still believed itself salvageable

wait to be pulled out of empire's first photo opportunity

Battle of Palo Alto

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

Col. John C. Frémont Planting the American Flag on the Rocky Mountains 1856 barbershop decor The reverence here is brassyCol. John C. Frmont Planting the American Flag on the Rocky Mountains 1856 a campaign lithograph that turns the Pathfinder's 1842 ascent into Republican iconography, his banner snapping above the continental divide as if Manifest Destiny itself were standing for president. 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