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George Washington 1st President of the United States 1846 — a mid-century lithograph that summons the founder back into a republic already arguing over its westward inheritance

A postcard sent from the moment Manhattan stopped being a city and started behaving like a constellation

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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 — the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic

George Washington 1892 Gift_for_Broncos_Fan George Washington 1st President ofGeorge Washington 1892 a late century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the General's death, the kind of commemorative likeness a Gilded Age parlor wanted on its wall: the founder rendered marble cool, the republic he left behind already industrializing past recognition. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and