Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print The engraver gives him the

The engraver gives him the steady gaze of a man who answered Lincoln's correspondence and Rome's both

the republic's most restless denomination charting itself across a century of revivals

Our Country's Heroes 1899 — a commemorative chromolithograph assembled in the flush of victory

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print The engraver gives him theOur Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,