Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Size:24x36 drafted by Eighth District engineers

drafted by Eighth District engineers who knew the Gulf would one day try to take it back

The American Episcopate 1884 assembles the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in a single hierarchical engraving — collared portraits arranged like a stained-glass window

a curl of sand bent into the Atlantic where lighthouses keep their long vigils and weathered shingles silver in the wind

New York City

Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Size:24x36 drafted by Eighth District engineersUlysses S. Grant 1877 the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term, a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic. The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic, uncomplicated, the soldier still visible beneath the statesman. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,