General Philip Sheridan 1891 canvas_Washington_DC 000-year-old obelisk in its improbable

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

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Garfield's Prayer 1882 — a memorial lithograph rendered in the year after the assassin's bullet finally finished its slow work

The Hudson Corkscrew Patent of 1886 — a Victorian Mechanical Marvel belongs to the great pre-Prohibition cocktail era

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General Philip Sheridan 1891 canvas_Washington_DC 000-year-old obelisk in its improbableGeneral Philip Sheridan 1891 arrives in the year of the cavalryman's death, a late portrait of the Union's hardest rider rendered in the elegiac register of a republic still cataloging its survivors. The image carries the weight of the Shenandoah and Appomattox folded into a single posthumous likeness. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional