James Madison 1897 large vintage map and the broad prairie main

and the broad prairie main street where ranch country met railroad town under an open Dakota sky

Times — a scene drawn from the electric crossroads where Broadway bends into Seventh

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 — a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves

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James Madison 1897 large vintage map and the broad prairie mainJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,