Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 2

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 2 renders the wartime president in the grave register his contemporaries reserved for him — a portrait engraved while the Union was still being argued out in ledgers

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

A formal courtesy issued from the marble halls of an institution built to inventory the world's goods — Philadelphia's curious experiment in cataloguing trade itself

when the sixteenth president's gaunt features were studied as closely as battlefield maps

Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 2Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century a romantic engraving of the conquistador's 1519 arrival at Tenochtitln, rendered in that distinctly Victorian appetite for spectacle, where horses, banners, and Aztec emissaries are arranged less as history than as theater dressed in the costume of empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional