Admiral David Porter 1840s vintage america art From the Plantation to the

From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 traces an arc no antebellum cartographer could have charted — a Reconstruction-era print honoring the improbable distance between the cotton row and the chamber floor

The Colossus and the Silver Leviathan: Liberty's Vigil at the Golden Door stages an improbable rendezvous in the harbor — Bartholdi's torchbearer holding her ground as a dirigible drifts past her crown

These are the postcards of Santa Fe Railway depots

when the duelist of Weehawken and would-be emperor of the Southwest had finally outlived the scandal long enough to be engraved into office

Admiral David Porter 1840s vintage america art From the Plantation to theAdmiral David Porter 1840s a naval portrait from the decade before the storm, when Porter was still a young officer in a fleet learning to project American power across Mexican coastlines and Caribbean waters, the brass of his epaulets rendered with the deliberate flattery of antebellum portraiture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional