Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print 19th Century gathers the founders

19th Century gathers the founders beneath the square and compass — Washington

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

the bathers in wool stockings — Old Orchard Beach was New England's seaside carnival

the republic's most restless denomination charting itself across a century of revivals

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print 19th Century gathers the foundersOur Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,