Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Size:24x18 where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was

where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was kept in line by Union guns trained as much on the city behind them as on any Confederate threat ahead

when fire swept the cotton-laden decks and pitched 139 souls into the icy Sound

Gallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista Feby 23rd 1847 — a martial lithograph from the Mexican War

his surname softened by the cheap ink and softer paperstock of a cigarette premium tucked into someone's vest pocket a century ago

Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Size:24x18 where Maryland's uneasy loyalty wasGreat Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 a chromolithograph broadside trumpeting the kind of late century exposition where electric light, ribboned livestock, and civic boosterism shared a single fairground. Its typography swells with the ornamented confidence of an America convinced that bigness itself was a virtue worth advertising. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National