Franklin and Gen Braddock Frame Style:Bourbon Frame George Washington 1852 — a

George Washington 1852 — a mid-century lithograph of the first president

Ancient Order of United Workmen Purity Education Elevation of Mankind 1881 — a fraternal chromolithograph rendered in the elaborate symbolic grammar of the Gilded Age lodge hall

when more than thirty thousand Union prisoners were packed inside its log walls under a Georgia sun that kept no ledger of the dying

casting Washington less as statesman than as Protestant saint expiring on cue

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Franklin and Gen Braddock Frame Style:Bourbon Frame George Washington 1852 — aFranklin and Gen Braddock a colonial tableau of the Pennsylvania postmaster bargaining wagons for the doomed British general's march on Fort Duquesne, rendered in the heavy line of historical engraving. It is the prelude to a wilderness catastrophe in 1755, and to the political education of the man who would later treat with kings. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the