Chain of Events in American History 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap These postcards carry the soft

These postcards carry the soft red-clay light of the Piedmont and the slow-drawl confidence of a southern capital learning to wear skyscrapers

the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record

the McPherson Gift

before the burden

Amos Kendall Postmaster General 1837

Chain of Events in American History 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap These postcards carry the softChain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence, the kind of civic instruction that flourished in parlors when the war was still close enough to touch but far enough to be arranged into lessons. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical