Illustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with

its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving

George Washington 1st President of the United States 1846 — a mid-century lithograph that summons the founder back into a republic already arguing over its westward inheritance

Washington arrives in mist and evergreen — Rainier shouldering through cloud

charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling

Last Moments of Washington 1864 — a deathbed lithograph circulated as the republic he founded was busy unmaking itself

Illustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered withIllustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 surveys the harbor city seven years past Appomattox, its rowhouses and church spires rendered in the patient lithography of a republic relearning how to admire itself. Each plate is a quiet inventory of brick, masts, and monument Baltimore as it wished to be remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National