Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Washington arrives in mist and

Washington arrives in mist and evergreen — Rainier shouldering through cloud

it reads as both roster and elegy

every clause a hinge between the republic that was and the one being forged in blood

the regimental colors arranged with the staged bravado of a republic discovering it could project force across two oceans at once

as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for

Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Washington arrives in mist andTrain Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century a documentary photograph of the iron age caught in one of its routine catastrophes, the locomotive stopped mid route while bystanders gather at a respectful distance to watch the smoke rise. The crowd's stillness suggests the spectacle was, by then, almost familiar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National