James Madison 1897 large vintage map Burning of the Library of

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 — a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves

DBS 1894 — a monogrammed relic from the latter Gilded Age

soft-money Democrat — stood for re-election on the rag currency question that split Ohio down its ledger lines

and Ocean Boulevard at high season

A battle lithograph from Taylor's Mexican campaign

James Madison 1897 large vintage map Burning of the Library ofJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,