George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Nebraska arrives by way of

Nebraska arrives by way of the Platte and the sandhills — large-letter greetings stuffed with cornfields and capitol towers

The Veiled Wanderer Venus in Her Celestial Masquerade — a Victorian astronomical plate that renders our sister planet not as a body but as a costumed mystery

Baltimore — a documentary photograph of New England gunners bivouacked in a border city that wore Union blue uneasily

Armory of First City Troop

George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Nebraska arrives by way ofGeorge Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha. A domestic portrait of the first family at Mount Vernon, the General rendered not as commander but as guardian of his wife's grandchildren the household tableau by which a young republic learned to picture its founder. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional