Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Custer's Last Charge 1876 —

Custer's Last Charge 1876 — a lithograph rendering of the Little Bighorn made in the gilded language of martyrdom

in McClellan's own dispatch

19th Century — a New Year's broadside in the old newsboy tradition

consequential term

Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Custer's Last Charge 1876 —Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824 1840 a specimen sheet from the firm whose burin discipline anchored the paper currency of a young republic, when every state bank issued its own promises and only the engraver's line stood between solvency and forgery. 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