Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall New York NYC arrives as

New York NYC arrives as a skyline in miniature — linen postcards of the Flatiron's prow

and IND as a circulatory system beneath the boroughs — every express line and local stop traced like vasculature on an anatomist's plate

fixing Wool astride his line on the chaparral plateau where Santa Anna's columns broke and the young republic discovered the taste of imperial victory

and stars by which a soldier knew his corps and a corps knew its dead

General George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall New York NYC arrives asEquality for All Men Before the Law 1877 a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South, its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice. The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of