Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Saturday July 4th 1874 commemorates

Saturday July 4th 1874 commemorates the dedication of Eads Bridge across the Mississippi

and the postcards know every mile of it — Lookout Mountain panoramas

A nocturne for a future that never quite arrived

presidential portraits

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Saturday July 4th 1874 commemoratesStorming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846. A battle lithograph from Taylor's Mexican campaign, drawn while the powder smoke still clung to the Sierra Madre Manifest Destiny rendered in bayonets and flagstaffs, the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional