Battle of Manila 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame A commemorative engraving of the

A commemorative engraving of the cabinet hour itself — Lincoln bent over the document that would rewrite the war's purpose

Bruce of Mississippi

Abraham Lincoln 1861 — a portrait from the threshold year

The likeness carries the weight of a man who fought by arithmetic

Washington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century — a 19th-century commemorative engraving rendering Henry Lee's famous eulogy into pictorial scripture

Battle of Manila 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame A commemorative engraving of theBattle of Manila, 19th Century. Dewey's squadron rendered in the confident line of an empire announcing itself in a foreign harbor a documentary engraving of the May morning when the Spanish fleet went down and the American century stepped, uninvited, onto Pacific water. 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