America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View

Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View From the Park looks south across Central Park's tree line as the young skyline shoulders upward — a Gilded Age tableau in which the Plaza's chimneys and the first towers of Fifth Avenue announce a city rehearsing its own ambition

The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 reissues Jefferson's founding text at the precise moment the Union began to fracture

stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page

the year of Buena Vista

America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum Manhattan Rising: A Gilded ViewAmerica's Famous Jockeys 1955 gathers the small, sinewy men who made the American turf silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals, each rider catalogued like a thoroughbred in his own right. 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 & Ives, Kurz &