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These postcards trade in streetcar-lined Locust Street

Chain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device — a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence

General in Chief of the Armies of the United States

arranged like a jury of intentions

Old John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 Size:24x36 The parlor here is aOld John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 traces the abolitionist's incendiary path in panel after panel Pottawatomie to Harpers Ferry a documentary engraving that treats the man as both prophet and powder keg in the year the Union began to fracture in earnest. 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