Assorted Frontier Scenes 1893 indianapolis art Anthony Burns 1855 — the

Anthony Burns 1855 — the fugitive's likeness ringed by vignettes of his auction

The City of Saint Louis Welcomes the National Democratic Convention 1888

the gaze of a man reading casualty lists by lamplight

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

Brigadier General USA

Assorted Frontier Scenes 1893 indianapolis art Anthony Burns 1855 — theAssorted Frontier Scenes 1893 a gathered sheaf of vignettes from the year Frederick Jackson Turner declared the frontier closed, rendered in the documentary hand of an era still cataloguing what it had already overrun. The scenes carry the weight of a ledger: encampments, riders, and open country pressed into ink just as the West was being pronounced finished. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the