Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art Wheeler 1876 — a Republican

Wheeler 1876 — a Republican campaign lithograph from the centennial year

the moment a young aide-de-camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on

and the Mormon Temple's six granite spires rising over Salt Lake City

View of Toronto Bay 1879

Oct 18 1813 (1846) — a mid-century lithograph reaching back three decades to fix the Shawnee confederacy's last stand in the Upper Canadian mud

Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art Wheeler 1876 — a RepublicanLife of Our Pioneers 1915 looks backward even as the world tilts forward, a 1915 commemorative tribute to the wagon road generation issued just as American boys were being measured for a different kind of frontier across the Atlantic. The pioneer here is already memory sanctified, archived, and quietly enlisted into the republic's second sober century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library