Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776, 1835 & 1856 Printings Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Battle of the Wilderness —

Battle of the Wilderness — Desperate Fight on the Orange Plank Road Near Todd's Tavern renders Grant's May 1864 collision with Lee in the Virginia thickets

The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

The Publicans Apparatus — Patent Drawing of the Victorian Beer Faucet captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

Mary Ball Washington the Mother of George Washington 1912 — a commemorative portrait issued in the long afterglow of Founding-era reverence

the gold-domed Capitol presiding over a railroad town rebuilt from ash

Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776, 1835 & 1856 Printings Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Battle of the Wilderness —Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776, 1835 & 1856 Printings. Two later strikes of the founding text, reissued as the republic stretched westward and quarreled with itself the same fifty six signatures that wagered everything on a sentence, reproduced in an ink that remembered the original audacity of declaring an empire's colonies free. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of