Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Cape Blanco Light Station

The Cape Blanco Light Station Blueprint Guardian of the Oregon Coast reads as a draftsman's reckoning with the westernmost edge of the continent — a brick conical tower drawn to withstand the gales that batter that basalt headland

The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic

Capitol at Washington 19th Century — an engraving of the dome rising above the Mall

The aerial conceit lends the camp a deceptive tidiness

Gen Robert E Lee at Fredericksburg Dec 13 1862 — the commander observing from Marye's Heights as wave after Union wave broke against the stone wall below

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Cape Blanco Light StationCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical