Admiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 Jacksonville_wall the kind of personal record

the kind of personal record that surfaces from a republic still cataloguing its returned soldiers and reckoning with the unwelcome maturity the war had pressed upon it

Chronological Chart of American History 1881 — a draftsman's attempt to corral a century of republic into orderly columns

Robert Edward Lee 1877 — a posthumous likeness of the Confederate general issued seven years after his death at Lexington

The Cosmic Mirror Smith's Celestial Sphere With Earth at Center places our small blue world at the heart of a gridded firmament

Admiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 Jacksonville_wall the kind of personal recordAdmiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 a press image of the hero of Manila Bay at his command rail, freighted with the swagger of a navy that had just dismantled a Spanish fleet before breakfast. Empire wore a white uniform that year, and Dewey was its calm, mustachioed face. 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