Death of Colonel Pierce M. Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco manhattan street art 1789–1897 Guardians of Our Prosperity

1789–1897 Guardians of Our Prosperity

ink and lithographic stone bearing witness to a presidency measured in casualty lists

issued for the contest against Cleveland — the kind of stiff-collared lithograph the Grand Old Party printed by the thousand to argue

1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting

a statesman of the Senate caught at the threshold of a country choosing expansion over caution

Death of Colonel Pierce M. Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco manhattan street art 1789–1897 Guardians of Our ProsperityDeath of Colonel Pierce M. Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco a martial lithograph from the Mexican War, fixing the moment a Carolina aristocrat fell beneath his regiment's blue standard, the South already rehearsing the iconography of sacrifice it would soon need in earnest. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional