Origin and History of the Stars and Stripes 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and open country pressed into

and open country pressed into ink just as the West was being pronounced finished

Inman caught the Chief Justice in his final years on the bench

A campaign portrait dressed in the rhetoric of liberty — though the freedom it championed wore expansionist boots

Abraham Lincoln 1917 — a martyred president summoned from the previous century into the year America entered the Great War

Origin and History of the Stars and Stripes 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and open country pressed intoOrigin and History of the Stars and Stripes 1899 traces the banner from its earliest cantons and crude field stitched stripes to the standardized flag of a reunited republic, a turn of the century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,