Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 salon wall decor General Grant and His Family

General Grant and His Family 1868 — a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot

when the prairie lawyer from Illinois was still circuit-riding through county courthouses

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista

The document reads less like law than like a sentence pronounced over four million lives

where Astors and Vanderbilts traded Fifth Avenue's brownstone heat for sea air and starched linen

Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 salon wall decor General Grant and His FamilyCommemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 a chromolithograph in the post war key of remembrance, gathering the green banners and brass of the Irish Brigade into a single civic tribute, struck a generation after the guns to honor the immigrants who bled for an adopted republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,