George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 World map print where merchants and carriages choked

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

General James Ewell Brown Stuart's Raid Around McClellan

when the West was still wide enough to run and nearly done being wild

Garfield 1881 — a memorial lithograph assembled in the months after Guiteau's bullet

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 World map print where merchants and carriages chokedGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the