Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 1840 — a campaign lithograph

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 — a portrait of the general a dozen years after Atlanta

A campaign portrait from the season the Republican ticket carried the rail-splitter and his Maine running mate into office

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 1840 — a campaign lithographEntrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century a romantic engraving of the conquistador's 1519 arrival at Tenochtitln, rendered in that distinctly Victorian appetite for spectacle, where horses, banners, and Aztec emissaries are arranged less as history than as theater dressed in the costume of empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional