Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 framed bartender USS Frigate Constitution Old Ironsides

USS Frigate Constitution Old Ironsides 1896 — a late-century rendering of the republic's most stubborn warship

Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington — a martyr's lithograph pressed from the Philadelphia nativist riots

mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

when the face had thinned to bone and shadow and the war's arithmetic had carved itself into every line

Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 framed bartender USS Frigate Constitution Old IronsidesDestruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 a mid century lithograph rendering the 1773 harbor raid for an audience seventy years removed, when Jacksonian America was busy mythologizing its own beginnings. The Mohawk disguised patriots heave their crates into the tide with the stagecraft of a republic that had grown certain of its founding gestures. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of