Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and large-letter greetings filled with

and large-letter greetings filled with saguaro silhouettes

Bombardment and Capture of Fort Hindman

almost familiar

Grant 1885 — a mourning lithograph cast in the elevated grammar of a nation burying its general-president

The Inferior Planets Venus Mercury in Their Celestial Dance charts the two sunward wanderers in their endless pas de deux

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and large-letter greetings filled withDiagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical