GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 definition_wall_art Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 —

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 — a commemorative portrait issued decades after the poet's death

Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 — a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista

The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood

with the composed gravity of a man who knew posterity was already taking notes

rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals — a republic still binding its post-war wounds

GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 definition_wall_art Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 —GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 a tobacco label from the heyday of the Baltimore plug trade, when Gail & Ax stamped its naval insignia onto every twist of dark fired leaf and trusted the anchor to do the rest of the advertising. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz &