when allegiance to the federal compact had to be drawn
iron foundation legs threaded into Chesapeake mud
The Merchants Mechanical Conscience is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall
nothing burns entirely alone
a Vanished Thoroughfare conjures the lost elegance of upper Manhattan when brownstone stoops met carriage traffic and the avenue still wore its Sunday best
Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 when allegiance to the federalQuincy Adams Gillmore, Major General USA, 1863 the engineer soldier rendered in the sober register of wartime portraiture, fresh from reducing Fort Pulaski with rifled artillery and proving that masonry, like the Confederacy itself, could not outlast the new mathematics of siege. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and