George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art Spanish American Soldiers and Flags

Spanish American Soldiers and Flags 1898 — a martial tableau from the year empire announced itself in Cuban heat and Manila harbor

confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

when Old Fuss and Feathers' epaulettes still smelled of Veracruz powder and the party imagined a general could be hammered into a president

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art Spanish American Soldiers and FlagsGeorge Washington 1896 a late century commemorative portrait of the first president, issued nearly a hundred years after his death, when the Republic had survived its second great rupture and turned again to the founders for the iconography of endurance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers