Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A chromolithograph rallying the Northern

A chromolithograph rallying the Northern imagination at the very moment of rupture

The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic

its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors

The Cape Blanco Light Station Blueprint Guardian of the Oregon Coast reads as a draftsman's reckoning with the westernmost edge of the continent — a brick conical tower drawn to withstand the gales that batter that basalt headland

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A chromolithograph rallying the NorthernCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical