where Main Street meant cattle drives and courthouse domes rose like small capitols
his unsmiling jaw rendered in the dignified gray tones the Gilded Age reserved for men it intended to trust
A press photograph from the opening weeks of the Peninsula Campaign
The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
his ambitions banked but unmistakable
Battle of Opequan or Winchester, Sept 19 1864 — Union Gen. Sheridan, Confederate Gen. Early spring sale bendels where Main Street meant cattleBattle of Opequan or Winchester, Sept 19 1864 Union Gen. Sheridan, Confederate Gen. Early. A documentary engraving of the Shenandoah's bloodiest reckoning, where Sheridan's cavalry broke Early's lines and the valley itself began its slow, scorched surrender to the Union advance. 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