1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America Size:24x36 Spirit of the Union 1861

Spirit of the Union 1861

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

These postcards hold the original Mardi Gras town in lithographed bloom: cast-iron balconies

a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward

The Crossroads of Commerce Herald Squares Gilded Chaos — a turn-of-the-century tableau of Herald Square at full tilt

1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America Size:24x36 Spirit of the Union 18611865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America. A portrait of the Confederacy's only president rendered in the year his government collapsed ink and likeness preserved at the precise hinge where a rebellion became a memory, and its chief executive a fugitive bound for Fort Monroe. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical