Leaders of the Knights of Labor 1886 framed shaving art View of Broadway and Maiden

View of Broadway and Maiden Lane

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

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

The Gilded Palace Where Astors Built Their Empire in Brick and Ambition renders the Waldorf-Astoria in its Fifth Avenue prime — a chateauesque pile of turrets and dormers where a single family's feud became Manhattan's grandest hotel

Leaders of the Knights of Labor 1886 framed shaving art View of Broadway and MaidenLeaders of the Knights of Labor 1886 a composite portrait from the year of Haymarket and the eight hour strikes, when Terence Powderly's brotherhood crested past 700,000 members and labor briefly believed it could outargue capital in the parlors of the Gilded Age. 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