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Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

Emblem of the International Longshoremen's Association 1912 — a fraternal device drawn for the men who worked the docks

The Statue of Liberty 1878 — a documentary engraving from the years when Bartholdi's colossus existed only in fragments

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General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas Captain Wilkes 1862 — aGeneral Grant and His Family 1868 a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot, posed beside Julia and the children as the country measured its scarred reconstruction against the steady, unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,