Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846 vintage horror art 1815 (1845)

1815 (1845)

Union Station's clocktower keeping time

where every concentric ring hums with the conviction that God

Stephen Girard 1832 — a portrait of the Philadelphia financier in the year of his bequest's settling

Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846 vintage horror art 1815 (1845)Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army, Sept 21st 1846. A battle lithograph from Taylor's Mexican campaign, drawn while the powder smoke still clung to the Sierra Madre Manifest Destiny rendered in bayonets and flagstaffs, the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional