Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846 vintage horror art Stephen Girard 1832 — a

Stephen Girard 1832 — a portrait of the Philadelphia financier in the year of his bequest's settling

Union Station's clocktower keeping time

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These are linen views of a capital rebuilt from Sherman's ashes — magnolia-shaded

Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846 vintage horror art Stephen Girard 1832 — aStorming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846. A battle lithograph from Taylor's Mexican campaign, drawn while the powder smoke still clung to the Sierra Madre Manifest Destiny rendered in bayonets and flagstaffs, the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional