the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission
their likenesses fixed not long before the Carthage jail made saints of them in the eyes of a young
an act of Gilded Age remembrance dressed as biography
The scene catches her mid-passage
the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend
City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 chicago ads poster the assassination cast not asCity Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 surveys lower Manhattan at the close of the century, the old Federal style hall hemmed in by the rising commercial blocks of a city already outgrowing its civic heart. A documentary view rendered with the surveyor's patience for cornices, awnings, and the ordinary geometry of municipal life. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the