Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 vintage eagle print American Order of United Mechanics

American Order of United Mechanics

Grant 1866 — a portrait of the general one year after Appomattox

Harlem's Gilded Promenade

Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 — a press photograph of the protected cruiser that carried Commodore Dewey into Manila Bay

Benjamin Franklin 1779 — the printer-philosopher rendered mid-mission in Paris

Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 vintage eagle print American Order of United MechanicsArmy and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 a granite shaft raised on the Common a dozen years after Appomattox, photographed in the careful civic hush of a city learning how to mourn its dead in stone, allegory, and bronze relief. 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 publishers (Currier