Burial of De Soto 1876 vintage xmas tree and stockade where Confederate prisoners

and stockade where Confederate prisoners and Union recruits alike passed the war's longest hours

1876 — a Centennial-year composite portrait

George Washington 1876 — a Centennial-year tribute to the first president

Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry and Rescue of Rough Riders at San Juan — a chromolithograph that hands the San Juan Heights back to the Black regulars who actually carried them

Burial of De Soto 1876 vintage xmas tree and stockade where Confederate prisonersBurial of De Soto 1876 a Centennial era engraving reaching three centuries backward to the Mississippi's muddy shallows, where the conquistador was lowered into the river he had claimed. The composition belongs to that Reconstruction appetite for founding myths, dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the