Death of Col. Edward D. Baker at the Battle of Ball's Bluff Near Leesburg, VA Size:24x18 every column a quiet argument

every column a quiet argument that knowledge belongs to the public

its grid of streets and steeples drawn with the patient optimism of a port learning to face forward

The Keepers Obsession Cape Lookout Lighthouse Blueprint traces the diamond-checkered tower that has watched the Outer Banks shoals since 1859 — a 163-foot brick column drawn with the obsessive precision of an engineer who knew Cape Lookout's currents would forgive no miscalculation in the spiral stair or the first-order Fresnel's seat

19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg

each ellipse a quiet argument that even the firmament keeps company

Death of Col. Edward D. Baker at the Battle of Ball's Bluff Near Leesburg, VA Size:24x18 every column a quiet argumentDeath of Col. Edward D. Baker at the Battle of Ball's Bluff Near Leesburg, VA a lithograph rendering the October 1861 disaster on the Potomac bluffs, where a sitting United States Senator fell in Union blue, his death rippling back to a Congress that would soon convene its Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,