Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle mucha style print the year inked beneath him

the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

19th Century — an engraving pairing Bartholdi's couchant Lion of Belfort with the steady gaze of the man himself

when secession was named usurpation and every farm boy who answered the call was inscribed into the ledger of a republic suddenly arguing with itself in rifle-fire

ink and lithographic stone bearing witness to a presidency measured in casualty lists

Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle mucha style print the year inked beneath himBrooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle renders the war's home front theater in tiered detail bunting, balconies, and the crowd assembled to raise dollars for Union wounded, their charity dressed in the same opera house where the city had lately come to be entertained. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National