Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame sent when Wilmington still called

sent when Wilmington still called itself the Chemical Capital of the World

Washington's Farewell Address 1856 — an antebellum reprinting of the first president's parting counsel against faction and foreign entanglement

rendered with the swagger of a metropolis convinced that steel and ambition could marry two cities into one

1884 — a commemorative engraved portrait of the man whose rotary press hurled American newsprint into the industrial age

courthouse square

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame sent when Wilmington still calledHenry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 a commemorative portrait issued decades after the poet's death, when a republic on the brink of world war reached back for the gentler cadences of Evangeline and Hiawatha, as if to remember what its own voice once sounded like. 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 lithographic