Family Picture for the Million, 1888 Old_Atlantic_City every column a quiet argument

every column a quiet argument that knowledge belongs to the public

casting the wartime president as a quiet patriarch with Mary and Tad gathered around the open Bible

Shall Remain Free

and the slow procession of wealth that once defined uptown Manhattan

sleeve stripes

Family Picture for the Million, 1888 Old_Atlantic_City every column a quiet argumentFamily Picture for the Million, 1888 a parlor chromolithograph pitched at the new middle class, its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the