The Peace Ball at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Battle of Tugela River Near

Battle of Tugela River Near Chieveley Camp

their identities pressed into pasteboard between drags of Sweet Caporal smoke

The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another

Washington's Birthday 1876 — a centennial commemorative observing the first president's natal day in the Republic's hundredth year

1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting

The Peace Ball at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Battle of Tugela River NearThe Peace Ball at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1896 a commemorative scene of Washington's victory celebration restaged a century on, the Virginia town remembering Yorktown's afterglow with the careful pageantry of a generation still tending the long shadow of its own more recent war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and