Chicago in Early Days 1779 1857 1893 framed eames art Senator from Alabama

Senator from Alabama

Snake Game Rules 1846 — a printed broadside of parlor instruction from the year Polk marched the country into Mexico

the 7th Cavalry collapsing into legend before the smoke had even cleared the Montana grass

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

Sept 22nd 1846

Chicago in Early Days 1779 1857 1893 framed eames art Senator from AlabamaChicago in Early Days 1779 1857 1893 compresses a city's whole becoming onto a single sheet Du Sable's trading post, the chartered young metropolis, and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical