First Landing at Gorahama 1856 Framed_MT_Bank The First Journey of Victory

The First Journey of Victory 1778-1922 binds two republics across a hundred and forty-four years — Lafayette's crossing answered

surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing

VA — a lithograph rendering the October 1861 disaster on the Potomac bluffs

smoke pouring from the Capitol's old west front while clerks hauled volumes into the cold air

First Landing at Gorahama 1856 Framed_MT_Bank The First Journey of VictoryFirst Landing at Gorahama 1856 documents an American footfall on Japanese soil in the wake of Perry's black ships, when the republic's reach across the Pacific was still a fresh and audacious thing. The scene carries the quiet swagger of Manifest Destiny extended to saltwater a treaty port rendered as overture rather than conquest. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the