Groton Monument 19th Century framed sports art Illustrated Chart of Our American

Illustrated Chart of Our American Republic 1874 — a chromolithograph schoolroom panorama issued in the centennial's long approach

Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate

American Presidents First Hundred Years 1776-1876 arrays the chief executives from Washington to Grant in a centennial chromolithograph

The postcards favor red barns at harvest

Groton Monument 19th Century framed sports art Illustrated Chart of Our AmericanGroton Monument 19th Century renders the granite obelisk raised above Fort Griswold, where Connecticut militiamen fell to Benedict Arnold's raiders in 1781 an engraving in the patient idiom of post war commemoration, when stone was the chosen vocabulary for grief still owed. 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