Armory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Size:24x18 Battle of Buena Vista 19th

Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century — a lithograph of Taylor's improbable February stand against Santa Anna in the Mexican mountains

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

undone by the same appetites his pleasure palace was built to serve

Manifest Destiny's confidence here meets its private cost

Armory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Size:24x18 Battle of Buena Vista 19thArmory of First City Troop, Escorted Washington and Every President Since 1861 Philadelphia's mounted gentry, keepers of a continuous ceremonial thread from Washington's day, photographed at the armory that housed their saddles, sabers, and the quiet pride of a unit that had outlasted every administration it ever escorted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National