John Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 antique map jamaica The Grand Repository New York

The Grand Repository New York Public Library Postcard renders the Beaux-Arts colossus on Fifth Avenue in the full pomp of its Carrère & Hastings glory — Patience and Fortitude couchant at the steps

when a stout general in a battered straw hat became the unlikely vessel for Whig ambition and the country's swelling appetite for conquered territory

Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse Blueprint the Sentinels Anatomy — a screw-pile sentinel born of the Patapsco's shifting shoals

The Zwietusch Beer Filter Patent Industrial Brewing Apparatus Blueprint belongs to the great age of American brewing

John Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 antique map jamaica The Grand Repository New YorkJohn Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 the Illinois politician turned soldier, photographed in the brass and braid of his commission the year he marched toward Fort Donelson and Shiloh, ambition stitched into every button of a uniform he had argued his way into wearing. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,