George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 stettheimer poster fighting an American war with

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt

These postcards trade in linen skies

The Cumberland Island Beacon a Tower Lost to Time drawn for a slender brick sentinel on Georgia's southernmost barrier island

California Southern arrives sun-bleached and palm-fringed — orange groves stretching toward the San Gabriels

George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 stettheimer poster fighting an American war withGeorge Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 a late century commemorative engraving issued in the centennial afterglow of the first inauguration, returning the General to his Potomac portico as the Gilded Age sought a founder worth remembering. The image is less biography than civic liturgy, Mount Vernon rendered as a shrine for a republic still tallying its losses. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the