City of New York 1856 era-gilded_age the great house of the

the great house of the Potomac standing in for the quieter chapter of a man whose name had already calcified into legend

the Democrat who would carry expansion's banner straight into the bruising campaign of '48

Abraham Lincoln 1865 — a likeness from the final year

that the United States had become a Pacific power

City of New York 1856 era-gilded_age the great house of theCity of New York 1856. A mid century prospect of Manhattan rendered just before the storm the harbor crowded with packet ships and the gridded streets advancing northward, charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,