DBS 1894 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation

Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation Proclamation 1888 is a commemorative chromolithograph issued a generation after the war

The Colossus and the Silver Leviathan: Liberty's Vigil at the Golden Door stages an improbable rendezvous in the harbor — Bartholdi's torchbearer holding her ground as a dirigible drifts past her crown

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The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

DBS 1894 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Abraham Lincoln and His EmancipationDBS 1894 a monogrammed relic from the latter Gilded Age, when initials pressed into paper carried the quiet authority of ledgers, club rolls, and the bureaucratic confidence of a republic settling into its second century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,