Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 salon wall decor and the slow gravity of

and the slow gravity of money rising up Broad Street like incense

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

General Grant and His Family 1868 — a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot

before Monmouth and the court-martial that would unmake him

Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 salon wall decor and the slow gravity ofCommemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 a chromolithograph in the post war key of remembrance, gathering the green banners and brass of the Irish Brigade into a single civic tribute, struck a generation after the guns to honor the immigrants who bled for an adopted republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,