George Washington Entering Trenton 1789 optician_definition scrutinizing aftermath of the war

scrutinizing aftermath of the war

rendering the liturgy in the patient line work of a draftsman who treated each gesture of the celebrant as an act worth recording

All United for Liberty

when Charles May's dragoons broke the Mexican line and delivered a captured general as proof that Manifest Destiny rode with sabers drawn

the republic's familiar pantheon arranged shoulder to shoulder as if convened for a single sober daguerreotype of national memory

George Washington Entering Trenton 1789 optician_definition scrutinizing aftermath of the warGeorge Washington Entering Trenton 1789. A commemorative engraving of the president elect passing beneath the triumphal arch on his way to the first inauguration the same Trenton where, thirteen winters earlier, he had crossed the Delaware to keep the Revolution from dying in the snow. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,