Emancipation 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame with the war's smoke barely

with the war's smoke barely cleared from the gallery

The Mechanists Shaker Patent Blueprint of Forgotten Innovation is a drawing from the brass-rail era — when the long bar

William Penn's Treaty With the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania renders the elm at Shackamaxon as Quaker mythology — Penn in plain coat extending wampum to the Lenape

The Iron Sentinels of Trinity Shoal — Lighthouse Engineering Blueprint charts the skeletal iron legs driven deep into Gulf mud off the Louisiana coast

Emancipation 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame with the war's smoke barelyEmancipation 1867. Two years past Appomattox, the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing, in Congress and in print, what freedom was actually going to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical