Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art mid-term and mid-century

mid-term and mid-century

the Negro League broadsides

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the quiet hour before Santa Anna's columns appeared in the pass

when Ned Hanlan's stroke could empty a city and Toronto Bay glittered with the wagers of two nations watching their oarsmen as carefully as their generals

a lithographer's roll call printed in the war's second year — when McClellan still loomed largest and the names beside him had not yet been sorted by victory or disgrace

Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art mid-term and mid-centuryHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,