55th Spanish-American War Congress, 1899 Size:36x24 when a republic still bandaging

when a republic still bandaging the wounds of civil war gathered its founders

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

A campaign-ready portrait of the Mexican War's most quotable general

retouched for a Gilded Age audience

the Great Inventor of the Telegraph 1871 — a commemorative engraving of the painter-turned-inventor

55th Spanish-American War Congress, 1899 Size:36x24 when a republic still bandaging55th Spanish American War Congress, 1899 a group portrait of the legislators who steered the republic through its imperial debut, their composed rows belying the volatile session that ratified the Treaty of Paris and inherited Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in a single stroke of pen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical