US Shield of Honor 19th Century Modern Patriot Art The Fast Mail 1875 —

The Fast Mail 1875 — a chromolithograph of locomotion at full throttle

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The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

The Birsfield Transmitter — Patent Drawing for the Candlestick Telephone Stand is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Republican Platform of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt — the party's printed creed at the close of TR's second term

US Shield of Honor 19th Century Modern Patriot Art The Fast Mail 1875 —US Shield of Honor 19th Century a heraldic chromolithograph in the patriotic vernacular of the period, the federal shield rendered with the stiff symmetry of a civic emblem, stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page. 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