printed when the Republic was busy translating its origins into civic furniture: engraved signatures arrayed like relics
Franz Sigel 19th Century — the German-born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic
Female Seminary Nashville Tenn Barracks of the 51st Regt OVI March 1862
issued in the long shadow after Emancipation when Black achievement was catalogued in lithograph as both tribute and argument
Life of George Washington
Great Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 alligator reef art printed when the Republic wasGreat Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 a documentary lithograph of the steamboat White Cloud's blaze devouring the levee, fifteen blocks of a frontier boomtown rendered as inferno on the eve of the cholera summer that would compound the ruin. 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 lithographic