Armory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Size:24x18 A documentary engraving of the

A documentary engraving of the August morning the admiral bound himself to the rigging of the Hartford and drove his squadron through the torpedoes of Mobile Bay — damnation spoken aloud

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century — a lithograph of Taylor's improbable February stand against Santa Anna in the Mexican mountains

Lord Rosse

Armory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Size:24x18 A documentary engraving of theArmory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Philadelphia's mounted gentry, keepers of a continuous ceremonial thread from Washington's day, photographed at the armory that housed their saddles, sabers, and the quiet pride of a unit that had outlasted every administration it ever escorted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National