Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century Citi_Field_Canvas the swan boats drift through

the swan boats drift through the Public Garden

The plate hums with the same Promethean nerve that gave us the Chrysler's spire and the dirigible mast atop the Empire State

Issued in the year of the World's Columbian Exposition

Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives

and the Belle Isle bridge — postcards mailed from the Motor City when assembly lines were new and the Detroit River carried freighters down from the Lakes in steady

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century Citi_Field_Canvas the swan boats drift throughElmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century the boyish Zouave colonel whose death at Alexandria, hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House, made him the Union's first martyr and turned a recruiting officer's portrait into a relic of grief. 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