Burial of De Soto 1876 vintage xmas tree George Washington 1876 — a

George Washington 1876 — a Centennial-year tribute to the first president

1876 — a Centennial-year composite portrait

The Old Post Office

and stockade where Confederate prisoners and Union recruits alike passed the war's longest hours

was being drafted in the same ink

Burial of De Soto 1876 vintage xmas tree George Washington 1876 — aBurial of De Soto 1876 a Centennial era engraving reaching three centuries backward to the Mississippi's muddy shallows, where the conquistador was lowered into the river he had claimed. The composition belongs to that Reconstruction appetite for founding myths, dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the