For President John Bell, For Vice President Edward Everett, 1860 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap at San Salvador — an

at San Salvador — an engraving freighted with the founding myth of the hemisphere

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 — a Centennial-era engraving rendering the Kentucky woodsman as armed patriarch

Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col

1886 — a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Grant's men swept up the Tennessee escarpment

Steel Giants of the Machine Age rises in a rendering of riveted ambition — towers shouldering through Manhattan haze in the years when skyscrapers were measured not just in stories but in the audacity of their setbacks

For President John Bell, For Vice President Edward Everett, 1860 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap at San Salvador — anFor President John Bell, For Vice President Edward Everett, 1860 the Constitutional Union ticket printed on the eve of secession, two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery. 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