38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 era-antebellum Arizona Grand Canyon arrives in

Arizona Grand Canyon arrives in linen and lithograph — sunset-stained chasms

a Vanished Thoroughfare conjures the lost elegance of upper Manhattan when brownstone stoops met carriage traffic and the avenue still wore its Sunday best

Daniel Webster 1865 — a posthumous likeness of the Massachusetts orator issued more than a decade after his death

rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington

the locomotive buried to its headlamp in drifts that mock the Gilded Age's faith in steel and timetable

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 era-antebellum Arizona Grand Canyon arrives in38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 a militia document from the long peace before the storm, when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents, certain that the Republic's next war would be fought somewhere far from home. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical