Gen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner 1840 Indy_Colts_Wall_Art Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition

Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 renders Chicago's glass-and-iron cathedral to American botany in the ornamented hand of an exposition draftsman

Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi

the chair was a throne

The scene captures the February evening that gave a generation its rallying cry

A campaign portrait of the Pennsylvania doughface on the eve of his victory over Frémont and Fillmore

Gen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner 1840 Indy_Colts_Wall_Art Horticultural Hall World's Columbian ExpositionGen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner, 1840. A documentary engraving of the Swamp Fox at his rough Carolina table, offering sweet potatoes and cold water to a redcoat envoy the kind of partisan legend the young republic loved to retell, half tactics, half parable. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical