Grand National Whig Banner 1852 Old Burma map Stephen Girard 1832 — a

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

Andrew Jackson President of the United States 1833

preserving the original handwriting

war with Mexico already gathering on the horizon

as the Biggest Little City in the World

Grand National Whig Banner 1852 Old Burma map Stephen Girard 1832 — aGrand National Whig Banner 1852 a campaign chromolithograph rallied beneath the Whig standard for Winfield Scott's doomed run, its eagles and bunting trumpeting a party already fissuring over slavery and union. The bravado is loud; the obituary, unwritten yet, was being drafted in the same ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical