William Buel Franklin, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The scene hums with the

The scene hums with the swaggering mercantile din of a city teaching the century how to hurry

as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for

Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s — a Knights Templar conclave document from the Gilded Age Midwest

the conqueror of the Spanish fleet rendered

William Buel Franklin, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The scene hums with theWilliam Buel Franklin, 19th Century a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg, his Left Grand Division swallowed by the slaughter below Marye's Heights. The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National