Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 framed orbit print every ridge and rail line

every ridge and rail line drawn by someone who knew what came after

Lynch sits among the dignified ranks of Black statesmen the post-war republic had elected and would soon abandon — a Mississippi congressman rendered in the careful portraiture of a country still arguing

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 — a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox

Saturday July 4th 1874 commemorates the dedication of Eads Bridge across the Mississippi

sober line of antebellum statecraft as the Union strained against its own expansion

Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 framed orbit print every ridge and rail lineDurand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824 1840 a specimen sheet from the firm whose burin discipline anchored the paper currency of a young republic, when every state bank issued its own promises and only the engraver's line stood between solvency and forgery. 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