Frederic C. Penfield 1923 framed orbit print The face is grave

The face is grave

and the Royal Astronomical Society's draftsmen rendered the heavens as both mathematical proposition and quiet wonder

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

General Twiggs at the Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec 1847 renders Scott's final push toward Mexico City with the bombast of Manifest Destiny in full throat — a battle lithograph in which the castle bristles

Frederic C. Penfield 1923 framed orbit print The face is graveFrederic C. Penfield 1923 a portrait of the diplomat who served as Wilson's last ambassador to Austria Hungary, captured the year of his death, when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe. 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