Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778, Respectfully Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson framed beer art Robert Edward Lee 1877 —

Robert Edward Lee 1877 — a posthumous likeness of the Confederate general issued seven years after his death at Lexington

its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving

Patterson Park's tents pitched on Baltimore soil where loyalty itself was a contested matter and a New York colonel's name held the line in ink

his likeness drawn from the lithographer's deliberate hand nearly two decades after emancipation — an assertion

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Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778, Respectfully Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson framed beer art Robert Edward Lee 1877 —Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778, Respectfully Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson an engraving of the moment Versailles bowed slightly toward a printer from Philadelphia, gilt courtiers leaning in to glimpse the rustic philosopher whose treaty would tip a war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the