Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 Size:24x18 Grant 1866 — a portrait

Grant 1866 — a portrait of the general one year after Appomattox

ceremonial swords

smoke rising from Spanish hulls in the harbor where an old empire surrendered the Pacific before breakfast

Robert Green Ingersoll 1890

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 Size:24x18 Grant 1866 — a portraitBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National