Battle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico, Sept 8th 1847 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A commemorative engraving marking the

A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year

drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink

The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian-era vow

Frontier Life 1875 — a documentary engraving from the year Custer was charting the Black Hills and the treaty ink was already drying into broken promise

Battle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico, Sept 8th 1847 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A commemorative engraving marking theBattle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico, Sept 8th 1847 a documentary engraving of Winfield Scott's costly assault on the stone mills outside Chapultepec, rendered in the brisk martial shorthand of the Mexican War, when Manifest Destiny was being argued in cannon smoke. 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