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Robert E. Lee, Albumen Photograph, With ...

The Vannerson Blockade Portrait

In the Spring of 1864 Lee agreed to have a series of portraits taken for ... Read More

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Henry Clay, Speech of Mr. Clay, ...

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Charles Francis Adams, Life of John ...

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D. Scott Hartwig, I Dread the ...

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William Riley Brooksher, Bloody Hill: The ...

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W. J. Hardee, U.S. Infantry Tactics ...

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National Republican Chart, Includes a Grace ...

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Ulysses S. Grant, Imperial Albumen Photograph, ...

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Gen. George Thomas Headquarters at Chattanooga, ...

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Iowa Infantry at Reunion, Co. K. ...

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Chattanooga Barracks & Depot, Albumen Photograph

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Kevin M. Levin

A Glorious Fate

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Special Announcements

Alphonso Iannelli Abraham Lincoln Bust

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

UPDATE: Our own Bjorn Skaptason visited the Iannelli bust in person. Watch him talk about it! UPDATE: The bust is completed and installed in Paris! Read about the unveiling ceremony. UPDATE:  Thanks to Judy Barclay and the Paris-Chicago Sister City Committee the Iannelli bust is being replicated. The replica travelling to Paris! We are thrilled to play a small role in this ... Read More

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Richard Robert Donnelley opened his Chicago printing company in 1864. In 1870, he changed the name to Lakeside Printing and Publishing Company. Rising from the ashes of the 1871 fire, by 1901 they moved into their own building. Located in today's Printer's Row neighborhood, the building is architect Howard Van Doren Shaw's very first design of a commercial building. The ... Read More