Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 mobile point art The Keepers Vigil Minots Ledge

The Keepers Vigil Minots Ledge Lighthouse reads like a draftsman's reckoning with the Atlantic itself — every dovetailed granite course of the Cohasset tower charted against the ledge that swallowed its iron predecessor in 1851

Horace Greeley — a pastoral lithograph of the Tribune editor's rural retreat

the Senate

the converted Civil War steamer reborn under Pacific Mail colors and crowned

Robert Cumming Schenck

Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 mobile point art The Keepers Vigil Minots LedgeFlight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 a documentary lithograph rendering Santa Anna's retreat from Taylor's outnumbered ranks in the Coahuila highlands, drawn with the swagger of a republic certain that Manifest Destiny had just been ratified at gunpoint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,