Washington and Nellie Custis at Mount Vernon Old_Atlantic_City The Constitution of the United

The Constitution of the United States Including Its Amendments

These postcards trade in pastel conch houses

its lantern-room geometry and spiraling stair drawn with the patience of someone who knew this light would outlast the men who tended it

Ohio arrives in lithographed views of canal towns and courthouse domes

The crowd's stillness suggests the spectacle was

Washington and Nellie Custis at Mount Vernon Old_Atlantic_City The Constitution of the UnitedWashington and Nellie Custis at Mount Vernon a domestic engraving of the General in retirement, his step granddaughter at his side, the great house of the Potomac standing in for the quieter chapter of a man whose name had already calcified into legend. 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 lithographic publishers