America 1671 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence

the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried

and Franklin bent over the parchment

words spoken in March 1865 to a country still bleeding

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

America 1671 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Declaration of IndependenceAmerica 1671 a cartographic glance backward to a continent still half rumor, when the colonies were a thin Atlantic fringe and the interior belonged to other nations entirely. The date itself is the artifact's argument: America as a word older than its republic, drawn before it knew what it would become. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional