Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender antique zodiac 1885 — a portrait from

1885 — a portrait from the general's final year

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

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing reads as a study in restraint — the close

mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived

The Statue of Liberty 1878 — a documentary engraving from the years when Bartholdi's colossus existed only in fragments

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender antique zodiac 1885 — a portrait fromCornwallis 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