Distribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York Antique_Map_Denver Battle of the Monitor and

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac 1889 - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph rendering of Hampton Roads on that smoke-choked March morning in 1862

rear-guard tangle outside the old colonial capital

and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint

rendered in full gallop against the darkness of the American night

Distribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York Antique_Map_Denver Battle of the Monitor andDistribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York a documentary engraving of the lottery night when subscribers crowded the great Broadway hall to learn which canvases fortune had assigned them, the Art Union's democratic experiment in culture playing out by drawn ticket and gaslight. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National