City of New York 1856 era-gilded_age gathering the martyred president among

gathering the martyred president among the uniformed architects of Union victory — an exercise in remembrance staged for a country still translating its grief into iconography

The Barron Typewriter Patent — Blueprint of the Written Word is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Abraham Lincoln 1865 — a likeness from the final year

the Democrat who would carry expansion's banner straight into the bruising campaign of '48

that the United States had become a Pacific power

City of New York 1856 era-gilded_age gathering the martyred president amongCity of New York 1856. A mid century prospect of Manhattan rendered just before the storm the harbor crowded with packet ships and the gridded streets advancing northward, charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,