City Hall Baltimore Maryland 1871 Size:36x24 and the cramped keeper's quarters

and the cramped keeper's quarters where a man lived alone above the tide

Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida

Ink set down by the same hand that signed the Proclamation

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals — a republic still binding its post-war wounds

City Hall Baltimore Maryland 1871 Size:36x24 and the cramped keeper's quartersCity Hall Baltimore Maryland 1871 a documentary engraving of the mansard roofed civic palace rising on Holliday Street, its iron dome freshly hoisted as the city poured marble and ambition into the long municipal answer to a war only six years cold. 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