Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Buffalo_Bills_Art Harlem's Gilded Promenade

Harlem's Gilded Promenade

his gaunt face rendered with the gravity of a man carrying a sundered Union on his shoulders

The scene renders smoke

A Victorian orrery rendered as devotional object

Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Buffalo_Bills_Art Harlem's Gilded PromenadeBird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. A documentary engraving of Zachary Taylor's encampment on the Nueces in 1845 tents fanned across the Gulf scrub, an army arranged like a wager, waiting for the war with Mexico that Manifest Destiny had already written. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical