Surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House Va April 9th 1865 xl framed map 1847 — a memorial lithograph

1847 — a memorial lithograph issued in the wake of the Carthage jail killings

Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898

the Ladies' Mile humming just north of the frame

The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend

Surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House Va April 9th 1865 xl framed map 1847 — a memorial lithographSurrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House Va April 9th 1865 a documentary engraving of the moment the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms in a Virginia parlor, four years of blood and ledger reduced to Grant's terms scratched out in pencil and Lee's quiet assent. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and