The Chief Justices of the United States 1894 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Death of the Gallant

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

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Grant 1872 — a campaign broadside for the general's reelection

American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century assembles the engraved faces of a republic still arguing with itself — statesmen

California Southern arrives sun-bleached and palm-fringed — orange groves stretching toward the San Gabriels

The Chief Justices of the United States 1894 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Death of the GallantThe Chief Justices of the United States 1894 assembles the men who shaped the bench from Jay to Fuller, an engraved gallery published in the long shadow of Reconstruction when the Court's authority over commerce, citizenship, and the unfinished business of the Amendments had become the quiet center of American power. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,