Chicago in Early Days 1779 1857 1893 pharmacist__wall_art his Mexican War laurels burnished

his Mexican War laurels burnished into the iconography of a Union already cracking beneath the rhetoric of compromise

where Franklin's likeness was reproduced and reissued as antebellum America searched its founders for ballast against the gathering quarrels of expansion and union

transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy

A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke — and Preston Brooks's cane in answer

struck a generation after the guns to honor the immigrants who bled for an adopted republic

Chicago in Early Days 1779 1857 1893 pharmacist__wall_art his Mexican War laurels burnishedChicago in Early Days 1779 1857 1893 compresses a city's whole becoming onto a single sheet Du Sable's trading post, the chartered young metropolis, and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical