Washington's Birthday 1876 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 19th Century — a self-rendered

19th Century — a self-rendered account from the rail-splitter turned wartime president

The Three Cardinal Principles of the Grand Army of the Republic 1884 — a fraternal lithograph of the Union veterans' order

Washington at the Outposts of Valley Forge 1859 — a mid-century lithograph reaching back across eighty winters to find the General among his sentries

Coast Guard

Washington's Birthday 1876 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 19th Century — a self-renderedWashington's Birthday 1876 a centennial commemorative observing the first president's natal day in the Republic's hundredth year, when a nation still binding its postwar wounds reached back to Mount Vernon for ballast, summoning the founder's likeness as the country took stock of what it had survived. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional