1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States old West Indies map A Victorian astrologer's plate that

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

and the slow arithmetic of a Union held together by ink

Emancipation Proclamation 1896 — a late-century commemorative reprinting of Lincoln's 1863 decree

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

captured at the high tide of American maritime ambition when clipper hulls and whaling fleets carried the young republic's commerce to every meridian

1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States old West Indies map A Victorian astrologer's plate that1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States a commemorative print issued for Philadelphia's hundred year reckoning, when a republic still bandaging the wounds of civil war gathered its founders, its battles, and its presidents into a single tableau and called it inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional