Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea rendered as a keepsake broadside

rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg

Eulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A

Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a Depression-era commemorative likeness of the first Treasury Secretary

Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea rendered as a keepsake broadsideCentennial 17761876. A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year, issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested, broken, and asked to mean something again. 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