Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 framed bartender when the face had thinned

when the face had thinned to bone and shadow and the war's arithmetic had carved itself into every line

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington — a martyr's lithograph pressed from the Philadelphia nativist riots

the gold-domed capitol presiding over a city built on insurance ledgers and seed corn

mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista

Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 framed bartender when the face had thinnedDestruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 a mid century lithograph rendering the 1773 harbor raid for an audience seventy years removed, when Jacksonian America was busy mythologizing its own beginnings. The Mohawk disguised patriots heave their crates into the tide with the stagecraft of a republic that had grown certain of its founding gestures. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of