American Scenery: The Inn on the Roadside 1872 Framed_Cubs Battle of Fort Donelson 19th

Battle of Fort Donelson 19th Century renders the February 1862 siege along the Cumberland in the smoke-streaked vocabulary of period engraving — gunboats wheeling

when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents

Secretary of State 1844

fresh from negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

A commemorative lithograph of Bartholdi's copper colossus three years before her torch was lit above the harbor — Franco-American friendship rendered in allegory

American Scenery: The Inn on the Roadside 1872 Framed_Cubs Battle of Fort Donelson 19thAmerican Scenery: The Inn on the Roadside 1872 is a documentary engraving of a wayside tavern at the height of the Grant years, when the country, still bandaging itself, found quiet comfort in the small theaters of arrival and departure a porch, a coach, a lantern lit against the dusk. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,