The Military and Historical Portrait Group, 19th Century patent where adobe missions and the

where adobe missions and the white arcades of the Hotel San Carlos trade postcard space with desert sunsets the color of struck flint

1893 — a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning

rendered with the swagger of a metropolis convinced that steel and ambition could marry two cities into one

a denominational census rendered in the grave decorum of post-war American religion

The Military and Historical Portrait Group, 19th Century patent where adobe missions and theThe Military and Historical Portrait Group, 19th Century assembles the engraved faces of a long century generals in epaulets, statesmen in high collars, the republic's familiar pantheon arranged shoulder to shoulder as if convened for a single sober daguerreotype of national memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and