Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Buffalo_Bills_Art sober line of antebellum statecraft

sober line of antebellum statecraft as the Union strained against its own expansion

where the capitol's limestone dome and the wrought-iron balconies of Quapaw Quarter find their way onto linen postcards and lithographed views — Main Street trolleys

Robert Louis Stevenson 199 — a portrait of the Scottish novelist whose American sojourns from Saranac Lake to the Pacific made him a fixture of late-century literary celebrity

his gaunt face rendered with the gravity of a man carrying a sundered Union on his shoulders

A Victorian orrery rendered as devotional object

Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Buffalo_Bills_Art sober line of antebellum statecraftBird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. A documentary engraving of Zachary Taylor's encampment on the Nueces in 1845 tents fanned across the Gulf scrub, an army arranged like a wager, waiting for the war with Mexico that Manifest Destiny had already written. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical