Our Police Faithful Unto Death 1879 Size:18x24 freighted with the swagger of

freighted with the swagger of a navy that had just dismantled a Spanish fleet before breakfast

where a routed Union army turned at the sound of one general's horse and pressed Early's Confederates into the smoke of the Shenandoah's last great reckoning

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

The print carries the Jacksonian creed forward into a decade that would test every inch of it

Our Police Faithful Unto Death 1879 Size:18x24 freighted with the swagger ofOur Police Faithful Unto Death 1879 reads as a civic eulogy in lithograph form a Gilded Age tribute to officers fallen in the line of duty, their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead. 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