Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 framed orbit print where musket smoke tangled with

where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering

Saturday July 4th 1874 commemorates the dedication of Eads Bridge across the Mississippi

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 — a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox

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

Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 framed orbit print where musket smoke tangled withDurand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824 1840 a specimen sheet from the firm whose burin discipline anchored the paper currency of a young republic, when every state bank issued its own promises and only the engraver's line stood between solvency and forgery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers