5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card and Art Deco façades that

and Art Deco façades that the linen-era printers rendered with almost tropical exaggeration

while the scars of Sumter still smoldered just offshore

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto

when the republic

two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery

5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card and Art Deco façades that5 Men 1916 a press photograph of five figures squared to the lens on the eve of mobilization, their stillness carrying the particular weight of a republic about to be conscripted into a war it had spent three years watching from across the Atlantic. 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