Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 large Canada map where the boys who flung

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

A documentary engraving of the colossal wooden hall raised in 1869 to house Gilmore's chorus of ten thousand — a city building cathedrals to harmony only four years after Appomattox

The Publicans Mechanism — Patent Drawing for the Perfect Pour is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

just thirty-one days after that interminable inaugural address in the cold

Patrick's twin towers in the brooding chiaroscuro of a Gilded Age plate — pinnacles and flying buttresses sharpened against a leaden sky

Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 large Canada map where the boys who flungDeath of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its prominent dead and Illinois sent home a name carved in heavier ink than most. 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